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“I know you and\nyou know me” began this way, about 24 years ago in the study of a\npsychotherapist in Rome a student of Psychology, his first training session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reference to the said Delphic “know yourself” was evident and that student came from the Magna Graecia (South Italy) but, in his conscience the wisdom of those masters who had sown and cultivated that extraordinary flowering of civilization in Art had been removed. and in Science: the cosmogonic harmony that nourished and developed the roots of Western culture. That student no longer knew, like so many individuals of our time, that the harmony that had created the universe and the human being came directly from Hesiod (and other thinkers of the time) from the god Eros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today astrophysicists\nare rediscovering that the Sun emits a note that lasts 24 hours, exactly the\nrotation time of the planet Earth around its axis. We could think poetically\nthat the Sun sings or plays and the earth dances on this harmony. Perhaps only\nthe poetic impetus from a mind that meditates philosophically on its own\nNature-Life can express the juice, the essence of those visions that the\nancient master founders of Western culture lived over 2500 years ago. How can a\nvision motivate beyond the millennia the still current sense of real knowledge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How is it possible that\nthe visionary motion of some intelligences lived in the 6th century to. C.\ncreated the most important religions and philosophies of the world? Lao Tze in\nChina, Moses in Egypt, Buddha in India, Pythagoras in Magna Graecia are making\nus and all the faithful of the Earth experience the power of their visions, and\nall their theory (way to the god, in search or find again) coincides and it is\nfound in the sense of a creative principle that loves and creates out of love\nand wants for love the harmony of creation. Exactly the opposite of the war in\nKosovo or any warlike instinct, someone will think here in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trainer of that\nstudent did not realize then and there of the whole psychic sense of that\n“I know you and you know me” even if he visibly started on the\narmchair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twenty years ago\nItalian psychotherapists still experienced subjection to Western and \/ or\nEastern theologies and sought the psychology of Being by defeating their\nmeanings from where they did not know there was a learned ignorance and\nalienating determination instead of maieutics reborn from the sophico-human,\nfrom experimentation and clinical practice. While from the roots of Western\nculture Eros, the uncreated creator god always lit up along with his own divine\nsoul (see Plotinus): Eros and Psyche have always been the same hypostasis.\nPsyche has always been, in mythology on the one hand the human pulsation\ntowards divinization through individual life (Paideia according to Jager) and\non the other hand the identical divine substance that drew to itself from the\nprimordial, uncreated Light of the Universe. A sort of visionary, philosophical\nanticipation of the principle of self-organization of matter set forth by E.\nSchr\u00f6dinger. In both cases this leading and unifying idea in physics (physis)\nand psychic (psych\u00e9) has been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So much so that\nEinstein and today’s physicists are still looking for the unifying theory of\nenergy fields and the “psychics” (psychologists, psychotherapists,\npsychiatrists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, etc.), equally seek the law or\ntrade-union ring between psyche and soma. Physicists and psychics, scientists\nand artists, thinkers and street people have certainly largely lost the\nmetamorphic, transformational capacity of the erotic-psychic reality of the\norigins of Western philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eros and Psyche\ncombined in the mythology the process of knowledge through the ability to\nforge, shape Harmony as the Sun and the Earth mutually mold each other to\nobtain life, us living beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To say that this is a\ncase simply means to say that the Roman psychotherapist did not know and did\nnot want to know the roots of his own thinking about himself and the student in\nfront of him: it means that a counter trend seeks to annihilate the meaning of\nlife here and now . If we admit that it is only a coincidence that Freud, Jung,\nAdler and all the other initiators of psychotherapy did not realize that the\nwords they used (Psyche, Therapy, Image, Form, Soma, Pharmacology, Sofia,\nCosmo, Physics, etc.) had been struck over 2500 years before, with a precise\nmetamorphic intention, that is, a mediator of the Real Reality, then we deny\nthem the sense of intelligent beings and the word, to every verb, to be an\ninstrument for authentic psychotherapy. The movement initiated by the cosmogony\nof those ancient masters, the dynamics of Eros and Psyche, nourishes not only\nthe person, but all that is transpersonal: the Psyche is not only individual\nbut collective. The Roman psychotherapist censored in his creative ideation for\ntwo millennia and more than Roman and dominant and dominant Catholicism, did\nnot feel that the impulse to the student’s knowledge was the result of two\nancient gods never dead or always alive in Western culture, Eros and Psyche\nprecisely. It is not paranoid or excessive to see in an individual in front of\nus in psychotherapy, the result of innumerable systemic, historical, cultural,\nbiological, material interactions of the fluid-dynamic cosmos. One of the\naberrations that alienating systems and their institutions make towards the\nindividual Being and the individual and collective Psyche is to break it and\nisolate it from the harmonic dynamics of the wise Reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The characteristic of\nevery historical domination is that of separating (removing the body) and\nseparating the myths and beliefs of the dominated civilization. This movement\nin the course of human history has created so many splits, fragmentations of\nthe human living being that in the end, as it is today, the tendency to\nschizophrenic disintegration has become psychogenic, that is part of the same\nhuman entity. The love for the Psyche and the Psyche for Eros, even though they\nremained the immobile engine of the dynamics of civilization, are constantly\nsubjected to the “caudine forks” of that sectorial tendency,\ndisrupting the Living Being that shows itself evolved in the increase silent\nand implacable schizophrenia in humanity (46 million according to the static\nWHO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the ancient myth at\nthe roots of Western culture there is the answer to the mental and\npsychosomatic health disorder of human beings. But it is an answer that must be\nadministered with maieutic wisdom, not with revolutionary aggression, but with\nvital aggression and innovative intelligence, respectful of the principle of\nself-organization of health that every individuation has in itself. The\nmythological dynamic between Eros and Psyche was good for the masters of the\ntime, the way out of any single or collective problem. Let’s think of the\nenantiodromia of Heraclitus as a unifying motion of the opposing principles and\ncurrents coming from the East and the West. The idea was thrown: it is possible\nto unify in order to rediscover a sense of Reality, and then set off again in\nsearch of further knowledge. Eros is the love for the light of knowledge: the\ngod is allied to Zeus when he defends Psyche and draws it from the Underworld\nnear Zeus when he abducts and joins Ganymede symbol of formal and corporal\nbeauty. The light (Zeus) love (Eros) the beautiful (Ganymede) and the soul\n(Psyche) are both the process and the ideal of human history: what is lacking\nin the war for war, in death by death, to schizophrenia for schizophrenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The transformative\nmovement of myth, as it was consciously administered in Greek and Magna Graecia\nculture, is blocked in the subsequent civilization (by the Roman and Christian\nopposition) and the incivility of the drug is determined at all costs, the\ndebasement of the principle of wisdom of the being psychesomal as a natural\ncapacity for self-organization in favor of a therapeutic expropriation mechanic\nthat rationalizes and endorses only the therapy of the human out, only the\nmaterial sense of drug and not the psychological and etymological one of\nremedy-poison, of individual and collective potential at the service of those\nwho understand it and use it wisely for therapy or ecstasy. Pharmakon for the\nGreeks was the music that Pythagoras administered to cure emotional disorder,\npharmakon was the theater, it was cultivating and knowing oneself, it was love\nfor knowledge: this healed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eros was the therapon\nand the final reason for the impulse of love, was the Apollonian know yourself.\nOnly those who knew themselves, their own self or luminous principle, could and\nknew how to love because they were familiar and intimate with the soul, with\nthe principle of light emanating from the invisible God. The motif that\nreunited the first of all gods, Eros, to the Creative Light of the universe and\nto enlightenment as a wisdom that is reborn and pushes towards the deification\nof the human being, is very similar to the Big Bang theory on the one hand and\nthat of the everlasting physical universe on the other. I mean that two recent\nand opposite extraphysical theories were quietly contained and tolerated peacefully\nin the conception of the master creators of Western culture. On the other hand,\nthe philological association of sophos (wisdom), phanes (light), phonos\n(sound-voice), psych\u00e9 (psyche), physis (physics) in the common sign\n“PH” was not a case in the Greek language, but a transformational\nnecessity of the personal and transpersonal psyche oriented to conquer the\nOlympus of divinity: the human Psyche who, through love for life and knowledge,\npracticed his own paideia or divinizing path (path).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pharmakon, the\nindividual who contracted all the negativity of the polis was expelled during\nseasonal rites and then welcomed back into the community with a symbolism that\nis similar to that of the Lamb of God, the Christ, and the Passover of\nJerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Certain mild rituals\nwere intelligently administered to evolve human civilization. Today it does not\nhappen as much in many schools of physical and psychic therapy because we\nsometimes forget consciously that the goal of therapy is the solution of the\nentrance symptom, it is the self-management of health, it is creativity and\nwell-being, it is Eros Psychic: love for the living soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The intentionality of\nEros is the height, the value, the authenticity of a real civilization of the\nPsyche. We have the right to the civilization of the Psyche, of a continuous\nPsyche that is found everywhere in relationships and in Nature and in the\nCosmos. Our epoch-making civilization at the end of the millennium is lacking\nboth in the authentic and cosmic sense of Eros and in the natural sense of the\nindividual and collective Psyche. At the same time, Darwin and Wallace thought\nthe principle of evolution in two different spaces; Newton and Leibniz invent\nin two different ways, in two different places but in the same period, the calculus.\nThere are many examples of how the push of the human Psyche to the knowledge of\nReality moves with a superindividual sphere of action and creates intuitions of\nthe real beyond the limits of space and also of time. B. Russel, in the last\nyears of his life, admitted that he had not yet touched the depth of the\nPythagorean number. E. Schr\u00f6dinger marveled that from a school (the Pythagorean\none in fact) considered idealistic, mystical, unreal and faded by the Ionian\nand Eleatites, so much truthful and scientific knowledge of worldly reality was\nborn (according to some, the infinitesimal calculus was intuited for the proof\nof the Pythagorean theorem at that time. The atom viewed by Democritus crosses\nthe millennia and is the object, today, of acute research and debates in\nphysics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The psychic and musical\nbased therapies (psychotherapy and music therapy) are now rationalized and\nrebuilt by the Greek and Italiot philosophical universe. These are the few\nexamples of how the time of millennia is crossed by the simple and powerful\nvisions of those wise masters of humanity who peripatetically sailed around\n2500 BC. C ..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the extraordinary\nthing that has been constantly removed for more than two millennia is that at\nthe base of all this movement that creates an authentic civilization of\nknowledge, there has always been Eros in embrace with Psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today the culture of\nLove in psychology and psychotherapy comes to us from Maslow’s Humanistic\nPsychology, from Fromm’s new-psychoanalysis, and Rollo May timidly tells us, in\nhis book “Love and Will”, that underlies the harmony of spheres or\nmusic of the spheres in the Pythagorean conception there was somehow sexual\nlove. It is probably true given that in the Pythagorean school teachers were\nboth men and women both married and not. But we must agree on the meaning of\nsexual love in Magna Graecia: we cannot believe that the only civilization\nthat, according to Jung, had devised a god of love, Eros in fact, relegated the\ndivinity only in the genital complement, in the purely sexual embrace . All the\nwritings, theories and myths of those times tell us the opposite. Eros is not\nAphrodite and is out of spacetime and is still the strongest of all gods and is\nhis very divinely soul and, as Plotino tells in the Enneads, contains his own\nimage understood in the sense of inner-outer act: imago, im needle threader.\nFrom many mythological fragments it seems more like Aphrodite daughter of Eros\nthan vice versa as it has in fact passed into our memory-consciousness. On the\nother hand, Eros generator of the cosmos cannot fail to be a Pythagorean idea\ngiven that according to Pugliese Carratelli there was no idea of\n\u200b\u200bLove-Soul-Harmony in the warrior culture handed down to us by Homer. Indeed,\ntoday’s archaeologists now distinguish two currents in the generating\nphilosophy of Western civilization: a Homeric, warrior, destructive,\ndisharmonic, the other, orphic-Pythagorean, creative, pacifist and harmonizing.\nIt is evident, for those who know the orphism, the root erotom philosophin of\nDionysism and the connection to the idea of \u200b\u200bknowledge created by the\ninitiatory psychism contained in the authentic Eleusinian mysteries or in all\nforms of initiation of the pre-Socratic world. Dionysus was the god of the\nMaenads and the Bacchoi, those strange dancers-visionaries who crossed Europe\nfar and wide (an Orphic temple was found in England, for example).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is clear that this\nfestive, ecstatic and initiatory religious-cultural movement involved peoples\nand cultures, crossing them and absorbing and spreading knowledge and ecstasy.\nToo bad to think that the dance of S. Vito and tarantolismo historical-natural\nheirs of those antiquated philosophical-theological visionary intuitions, may\nhave long been considered psychiatric syndromes! Nor is it risky to say that\nthe nosographic dazzling of many modern always caustic psychiatry towards the\npsychic aetiology of psycho-neuroses does not recognize in the stratified\ndiagnosis of manic-depressive schizophrenia an exasperated zeal or mechanistic\nfrost to close, imprison, hologram to erotic energy – psychic of those ancient\npropensities for ecstatic dance, to knowledge through psychic vision, all\nqualities proper to the human Being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, the\ndrastic insolvency associated with the diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis,\nthe lack of etiologically and etiopathogenically mature explanations, the\nsystemic push towards pharmacotherapy, delineate an equally alienating\nintention-line of dispossession of the principle of psychic self-organization\nof the individual and collective human health, sometimes outline a conscious\npseudoscientific lies and a considerable ignorance of historical-mythological\nvalue. But even worse I must say that in some cases, clinging behind the screen\nof diagnoses and external remedies, simply demonstrates the inability to\nresolve the symptoms of entry to psychotherapy, the inability to correspond to\nthe etiological and etymological sense of the psychotherapy question by the\nclient-patient-user. The ancient Italians knew that: “Those who take care\nof men are gods” (see pag.234 of “The Pythagorean fragments” by\nTimpanaro-Cardini ed. La Nuova Italia )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All this could mean\nthat behind the label of the title and the diploma of therapist, there is an\nalienated person who continues to alienate and that, the erotic and psychic\nalienation process was well known at the time of the wise creators of Western\ncivilization (compare Socrates and Alcibiades). But this is another interesting\nchapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Certainly referring the\nalienation of the human Being to the division of the androgynous Being operated\nby Zeus and reported in the Symposium by Plato, means to bind to a philosophy\nof coverage of the real problem of alienation that as you know finds no\nsolution and does not pacify the intelligences psychologically vigilant that\nthey have critically examined the Platonic-Socratic myth in the light of the\ntime of decadence in which Plato lived (a time that ratified the condemnation\nto death of Socrates and therefore of human wisdom) and also in the light of\nthe psychological Reality of our time. A true theory, which explains the real,\nalso resolves the real. Many myths or psychological theories do not actually\nresolve mature and healthy human beings in crisis and therefore they must be\nput aside in my opinion as virtual and derealizing or alienating conjectures.\nIn other words, there are mythological or thought processes in man that are\ncarriers of an age-old alienation and also contain the seed of the\nproliferation of nonsense if not wisely administered and explained as relative\nand unnecessary horizons of the real psychic and psychosomatic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such is the myth of the\nandrogyne, the myth of Er and in many places the fable of Eros and Psyche. The\nreason is very simple: all these ways of the myth of thought or religion have\none thing in common, they tend to conceal the theory of metemsomatosis, the\nintuition of paideia and the metamorphic capacity of the Psyche hypostasis. Let\nme explain: the myth of Er is the emblem of the theory of metempsychosis of\noriental origin and it has been shown that this is not historically real\nbecause the Pythagoreans professed methematoxy, a sort of Lavoisier principle\n“everything is transformed and nothing is destroyed” .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The androgynous\nattacking Olympus to oust Zeus is a tale of popular popularization coined for\nthe presumptuous and arrogant of the regime of the period in which Plato lived.\nIt should be remembered that Plato himself was a cousin of one of the tyrants\nof the time and that he despised his political customs. As proof of this, there\nis the fact that the paideia as a way of finding divine wisdom during human\nlife was the adopted and conscious inter-school practice despite the different\napproaches at different schools of thought. The fable of the late Apuleius on\nEros and Psyche proves itself bound, in its slavish utterance of the\ncondemnations of a jealous Venus and in the tricks of the remedies adopted by\nPsyche and its allies, to a decadence of Greek mythological-ecstatic philosophy\nand wisdom. magnogreca (tried and in crisis after the massacre of the\nPythagoreans and attracted by the power of the Roman world and by the charisma\nof nascent Christianity, see Varro) understood as processes of search for the\nSelf or of the divine Being in the man-woman: “Also I am of divine lineage\n\u201dwas written on the gold foils several times found in tombs of Southern Italy\n(see pag.315 of the\u201c Paideia \u201dof Jager ed.La Nuova Italia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is to say, while\nconcluding with the deification of Psyche, the fable tells us nothing of its\noverseas roots and its already concealed divine identity with Eros (as we find\nin Plotinus), while adding with Eros’ pregnant idea of \u200b\u200bPsyche a generative\nquality in the sphere of the living human-divine that the god Eros up until\nthen (that is to say, the historical-mythological time of the fable itself)\nseemed not to have (see Newmann).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eros was often\ndescribed as an assistant to the generative acts of gods and human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We must therefore look\nmore deeply into the sense of Psyche in schools where almost all the roots of\nWestern culture seem to have proliferated. These schools that are presented as\nsuch, according to the most recent archaeological discoveries, are precisely\nthose of Pythagoras, Telete, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras and other\nPresocratics. However, the school of Pythagoras in southern Italy seemed to be\nlong, the most famous and versatile of all the others. It can easily be\nverified that Pythagoras coined (according to the fragments of his philosophy)\nmany of the terms later used in Western culture: cosmos, number, philosophy,\nmonad, mathematics, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is interesting to\nnote that in the philosophy of the Pythagorean school, Psyche was identifiable\nwith number, monad, love, harmony and soma. Now, if we give the generative\ncapacity of words a sense of significant wisdom of things and of the world, we\ncan infer that Pythagoras tried to create and somehow obtained in his disciples\na remarkable curiosity towards the knowledge of the world. That is, through the\ninitiatory organization of his school, through his unquestionable dialectical\ncapacity or his charisma, he obtained a healthy movement of consciences towards\nthe search for the truths of the worldly Being. It is clear that this quality\nis desirable in every teacher, in every psychotherapist and in every human\nbeing. But it is not clear how Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans intended and\nused psychic vision to discover, meditate and generate new ideas in all fields\nof knowledge. Because this is the incredible fact also according to Sch\u00f6dinger:\nthey were among those of all the schools of the time who discovered more real\ntruths about the human and natural and cosmic world. So the secret of the\nancient masters who created the roots of Western culture lies in their ability\nto view the Real Ontico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democritus, Heraclitus,\nThales, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Parmeniche, etc. they all had a developed sense\nof psychic vision combined with an excellent life experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To understand what they\nwere viewing and how we can ask which mythologues followed. Eg it is safer than\nthe masters mentioned above to follow the paideia of Mnemosyne and the Orphic\nlaminettes rather than the tragedy of Oedipus the King. The cultural,\ninitiatory myth of the goddess Mnemosyne introduces directly, consciously and\ndaily to the theory of images, that is, of the whole world invisible within the\nphysical universe. But between the physical and the psychic there was no iatus\nbut a natural contiguity, as shown by the evidence that astronomy is cultivated\ntogether with the meditative philosophy in the Pythagorean school itself. The\nconfirmation of the importance of Mnemosyne and its path of images aimed at\nrediscovering the situated meaning of the divinizing vision of the human being,\nis given by all the humanists of European culture from the \u2018400 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philosophers and\nscholars such as Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Marsilio Ficino and Pico\ndella Mirandola adopted a theory for the mnemonic visualization of images\nassociated with the various notions of the culture or wisdom of their time.\nThis theory was called by some mnemotechnics. I believe that the association\nbetween Pythagoreanism, Mnemosyne, mnemotechnics, humanism and the value of\nimages and myths for the phenomenology of therapy and psychological knowledge\nhas escaped even the initiators of modern relaxation techniques, yoga,\nautogenic training, and imagery and last but not least of imaginative\nassociations. I’m talking about Jacobson, the various western masters of yoga,\nSchultz, K. Thomas, Freud and Jung. There is a reason why the relationship\nbetween the visionary capacity of pre-Socratic philosophers and the modern\ntechnique of psychology-psychotherapy did not jump to the evidence of the\ninitiators of the various schools. The reason is war. Both the first and second\nworld wars that all other wars, which succeeded the international community,\nachieve the goal of censoring, removing and separating human intelligence aimed\nat authentic civil progress: the civilization of the Psyche in Love and\nEcosystem knowledge. This is why Freud and Jung and Adler and all the European\nand American initiators could not grasp the sense of wisdom of the roots of\nWestern culture. It seems to be in the presence of the repetition of an\nancestral cycle of destruction and reconstruction of the meaning of life. It\nseems to be in the presence of a trend that is just as potent as the erotic one\nbut in my opinion this is not the case. Let me explain: the tendency to\nself-organization already inherent in physical matter inclines towards the\norganization of a coherent and finalistic principle of life in biology\n(Maturana and Varela) and in plants, it is still evident that the identical\ntendency to self-organization in the physics of particle (see E. Schr\u00f6dinger)\ncreates the self-organizing instance of psychosomatics and therefore of psychic\nenergy-force. This tendency could be the result of the original movement of a\nuniversal principle or law that the Greeks called Eros, which Christians call\nGod, which the Native Americans call Manit\u00f9, which Hindu-Buddhists call Brahma,\nand which every other people calls with the own language resounding however the\nsense of the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe that for\nscientific simplicity, the sphere of action of this self-organizing tendency in\nhuman beings can be called Psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we hypostate the\nPsyche as a real entity (because it is a real energetic entity) strangely or\nnaturally we get physiological advantages in terms of psychic or psychosomatic\nhealth; exactly as when we really hypostatize Eros as a divine way in the human\nbeing or wisdom of the divine being (Ontosofia) that guides the ego in the\npaths of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we assume instead\nthat Eros and Psyche are only masks or images that are not real, we have not\nexplained the principle of self-organization of the same matter nor the principle\nof the will to love, of the desire to do good and therefore the principle of\nthe evolution of species according to Darwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We must breed,\ncultivate the best to improve the species. Now, Diotima, the priestess who in\nPlato’s Symposium, is said to have instructed Socrates himself in the things of\nlove, reveals to us in some way that he is not a mask (see Galimberti) but that\nhe was a real wisdom lived for two reasons : one, he saved the Athenians from\nthe plague, two, he educated Socrates in the things of love and Socrates was\nconsidered the wisest in the Athens of his time, so Diotima educated and\nrealized in Socrates the wisdom of love-soul ( if we keep in mind the whole\nrelationship between Daimon, Eros and Psyche). On the other hand, even if we\nconsidered Diotima a metaphor for some psychagogic or paideutical reality that\nhappened at that time between priestesses and initiates of philosophy (such as\nThemistoclea for Pythagoras) we do not alienate the sense of symbolism of a\npedagogical and therapeutic Eros suited to traditions mystical-religious and\nexoteric divulged among all the communities and temples of Greece and Magna\nGraecia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, Diotima,\nrealizes the idea of \u200b\u200b”coniuctio” or “agape” between\nEros-Therapon and Erota-Filosophorum, that is, between the love that heals and\nheals and the Eros who loves and cultivates the love of wisdom and knowledge.\nWe can find in several other classical authors the relationship between Eros,\nPsyche and Terapeia, Sophos (wisdom) and the “know thyself” of the\nApollonian-Dionysian temple of Delphi. To us today psychotherapists are\ninterested to know that, at the origin of Western culture, there existed the\nidea and the practice of therapeutic love-soul, that is translated into\nlanguage congenial to us, the authentic love of the psyche therapeutically\nworks psychic and psychosomatic health (it loves the your neighbor as\nyourself). We can ask ourselves: why in more than two millennia has this\ntherapeutic idea based on love-soul not remained real and instead passed on,\nembodying a banalizing and mechanistic idea of \u200b\u200bthe psyche, love and therapy\nin the human partner culture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evidently the answer is\nthat the psychic and physical war has prevailed in the historicization of the\nauthentic culture of the human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pythagoreans were\npersecuted for example as the Jews and like all societies and ethnic groups\nthat have dared in the course of history to oppose with a sense of real\ncivilization superior to the dominant civilization. But the instinct to order,\nharmony, good and psyche is always reborn and always awaits the rebuilding of\nlove for the truth, for a healthy life, for being psyche, for the light of\nhuman wisdom. The tendency to a civilization of being is fundamental with\nrespect to the civilization of having (see E. Fromm and A. Maslow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example of a\npsychosomatic clinic referable to therapeutic love has recently occurred to me with\nmy assistant psychologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This woman, aged 40,\nhad had persistent pain in her right ovary for three days. He talks about it before\na couple’s session in which he had to help me as an assistant in training. I\ntake note of the thing and there and then I don’t make any comment. During the\nsession, however, I have a precise sense of Eros-Therapon, of therapeutic love\nin the particular situation that occurs between the two spouses who asked me\nfor psychotherapy. The two users find themselves in a higher psycho-existential\nmeaning of their union. Once the session is over, I begin with the assistant\nthe usual supervision of the setting dynamics. At some point I have the\nperception that his ovarian pain is gone. I ask a direct question to the\nassistant psychologist: “has your pain not gone to the right ovary?”\nShe, expressing a long pause of wonder, responds after looking inside:\n“yes, it’s true, I don’t feel anything anymore” and then “but\nhow did it happen?” We can well understand that symptomatic remission even\nin its content of subjective evidence has all the scientific value of a\nsuccessful therapeutic act. To explain myself, I repeat some explanatory\npassages of therapeutic eros activated in the setting and I say that the\nintentionality of the Picosomatic Onosophy is developed through the natural\nsphere of action of love among the living that is activated in a mature\nconsciousness in psychosomatic vision. As this is one of the many events of\nsymptomatic remission which, intentionally occurring by my presence, occur\nsystematically during the sessions of Psychotherapeutic Ontosophy, I am\npersonally no longer surprised by this natural psychodynamics of well-being. If\nanything, I am surprised that many times people who receive this evidence\nduring the session of Psychotherapeutic Ontosophy, even compared to symptoms\neven more serious than the one mentioned, do not take it as a lasting ethical-personological\nconscience directive in the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is, it amazes me\nthat human beings easily forget or consciously remove the psychodynamics of\nwell-being carried out and fall back into the circuits of an alienated\npsychosomatic consciousness. They begin to think of themselves in the usual\nwrong way with the mind-body split typical of their own system of family,\nscientific, cultural, religious reference, etc. This makes it clear to me that\na millenary tradition of psychosomatic alienation survives in the human ego by\nobscuring the sound historical-philosophical roots of the psycho-erotic\nconsciousness of Western man. The homicidal war and the rebirth Eros remain two\nopposing and present dynamics in the human race. I really do not believe that\nthe problem is due to an existing death instinct and opposed in nature to a\nlife instinct, but rather that the Eros-Psyche not lived and fully conscious in\none’s own life, removed from the various religious and non-religious societies,\ndetermine daily alienation to alert the reality of living intelligence to the\nneed to return to one’s original sense. A love cut off from its natural\npsychotherapeutic potential, through a millenary alienation, generates hatred,\ndisease and war and finally death as the conclusion of an alienating circuit\nfrom which the voluntarily imprisoned self does not want to usher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we psychotherapists\nstart again to reaffirm in the human culture a right to Psyche as a possibility\nof therapeutic Eros, love that brings about the harmony of the socio-cultural\nsphere of action from the generative roots of the divine cosmogonic Eros of the\nEuropean Greeks, we will regain, day by day , the happy health of ourselves and\nof the humanity referring to us. The case studies resolved by the Onosophy\nPsychotherapeutic approach can be a valid contribution to the reconsideration\nby today’s scientific conscience of the real value of therapeutic Eros, of the\nlove that cures as a principle in the act of being human. My son Iori-Felice in\nconclusion of a conference on love, raise your voice and ask a\nquestion-affirmation addressed to me: “then you are Eros ?!” And I:\n“Yes, I am what you are: the psyche that you love and the real dream of\nthe matter.” The Psyche is the Onosophy, the wisdom of Being. The wisdom\nof love of the human being is the fruit of which the earth of the next third\nmillennium is pregnant: Visceral Ontopoiesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Real Ego, the Real\nOntic I speaks and continually acts as an individual existing from the bowels\nof the psychosomatic sense (engastrimyuthoi = voice of the visceral soul or\nholistic synthesis of the visceral enteric brain, see M. D. Gershon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This explains the\nclinical results of symptomatic remission, both spontaneous and obtained in the\nsetting of different therapeutic approaches based on psychosomatics,\nneurosciences, behaviorism, cognitivism, hypnosis, tarantism and music therapy\ndance, body work and all chakra-based therapies or energy centers of human\ncorporeality and beyond. In synthesis in the recent therapeutic one is\ninevitably emancipating the ancient meaning, etymological, originating from\ntherapeia as respect of the self-healing gift that the Being has in Himself and\nfrom the profound act of its own intelligence it regenerates the psychosomatic\nharmony: Visceral Ontopoiesis over and within every teaching , technique,\ntherapeutic methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is one of the\ndreams, manuscript in October 26th 2000 in which I see the publication in\nItalian of an article about the discovery of M.D. Gershon in the magazine Focus\nof March 2001, but already in 1990 I published “Dream and Cancer in\nSigmund Freud” (Dream and Cancer in S. Freud), then a monograph that ten\nyears before the publication of MD Gershon (1999), showed, the completeness and\nmaturity of the intuition that I had of the Psyche Visceral as a phenomenology\nnot counted from the cerebrality of “Head” of the\nmedical-psychiatric-psychological reductionism. Naturally the clinical\napplication of the same intuition Visceral Ontopoiesis as a faculty identified\nin the psychosomatic human being had already guided me for about fifteen years\nbefore: in conclusion they are twenty-five years that I apply in my\npsychosomatic clinic that intuition mentioned above by solving the most varied\ncase series and lately I have even found that Crohn’s disease has been solved\n(a case I will publish soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“I know you and you know me” began this way, about 24 years ago in the study of a psychotherapist in Rome a student of Psychology, his first training session. The reference to the said Delphic “know yourself” was evident and that student came from the Magna Graecia (South Italy) but, in his conscience the … Leggi tutto “Visceral ontopoiesis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmirotta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}