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Group and Rite

11 August 2022/in Group and Rite, Stefania Marinelli/by @dmin

Abstract

This text attributes several significances and functions to social rite and its construction inside group. Certainly, these have a social value in maintaining and keep cohesive group, but also they can stimulate new experiences, not already known and coherent.
Author poses three different notions of social rite and he compares them to other three opposed notions. First of all, (a) the containing function and creative of social rite inside group, contrasting to ceremony, which makes rite’s structure more formalized. Then, (b) notion of rite is viewed as a shared dreaming’s narrative rite. Read more

Resonances and Reflections on the Works of Marinelli, Mellier, and Neri Presented at the “Group and Ritual” Conference

11 August 2022/in Group and Rite, Silvia Corbella/by @dmin

Abstract

The theme “Group and Ritual” seems of particular significance at this profoundly complex and dramatic historical moment, with the danger of closing into the “private,” provoking a disintegrating and dangerous narcissism. The analytically-led small group can be not only a valid model for dealing with narcissistic closure in the self, but is also a preferable method for healing contemporary malaise, characterized by the inhibition of preconscious functions of creativity and symbolization. This lack is intensified in times of profound change, of transitional Read more

Cybernetic Rituals and Rituality in the community of Digital Brothers: clinical and theoretical reflections

11 August 2022/in Angelo Bonaminio, Domenico Scaringi, Giusy Daniela Spagna, Group and Rite/by @dmin

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the theme of ritual in adolescence. Firstly, the function of ritual in adolescence and related pubertal transformation are discussed. The crisis of rituals in post-modern societies is mentioned and possible subsequent outcomes of that, in terms of youngsters’ developmental path, discussed. Particular attention is given to possible ritual-like functions offered by cyberspace and videogames. Specifically, an attempt is made to distinguish those phenomena that serve as a ritual the youth’s development from those frankly Read more

Illness and cure. Ritual contexts of sharing

10 May 2012/in Alfredo Lombardozzi, Disease and the Group/by @dmin

Abstract

The disease event, in this article, is examined both from an individual perspective, and socially. Thus, in Western society, the parameters of individual psychology are rethought in group psychotherapy, in a manner such as to create conditions to facilitate the sharing of suffering and disease.In different contexts, rituals, suffering, disease, and the states of crisis, are addressed in complex rituals of social sharing of the disease. Therefore, there is a connection point between traditional therapies in the contexts of native Read more

Introduction: “The group of gods from Anthropology to Group Psychotherapy”

1 January 1970/in Alfredo Lombardozzi, Claudio Neri, Enzo Scotto Lavina, The group of gods from Anthropology to Group Psychotherapy/by @dmin

“What ever be the faith that they practise,
all poets as such,
are polytheist”
Auden

The famous song Acquarello by the Brazilian songwriter Toquinho goes as follows:
“ On a piece of paper you can see who travels in a train… they’re three good friends who eat and talk softly… from one America to the other, it’s a joke, a second is needed… you only need to make a nice circle and here you have the whole world…”
This relates to the atmosphere during the meeting for the work and research project.
Whilst from the outside world an abundance of dramatic headlines flooded in regarding ideological interethnic conflicts, ‘of civilization’, as someone claims, on a roman terrace the authors of this introduction met for dinner during a summer evening: there was an atmosphere of peace, that of exchange and curiosity for the thoughts of others.
The triggering idea was in someway autobiographic: Enzo Scotto Lavina’s personal encounter Read more

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