Silvano Calvetto, Recomposing fragments. Bruno Bettelheim and the criticism to specialism

 

The declaration of the risks connected to the institutionalization of the psychoanalytic method and the criticism of the  educational hegemonic models of our times are two aspects which highly characterize the thought of Bruno Bettelheim. Intertwining these two aspects and recalling some of the key issues of his cultural proposal, between the seventies and the eighties he offered a significant contribution to the highlighting of the contradictions and limits of the so-called rationalist paradigm, which ends up with eliminating the emotional-affective dimension of the individual, hence giving up to 180undertake one of the decisive aspects around which the process of construction of the subjective identity takes shape.

 

Published on: Poetics of gesture, N. 19 New Series – Year X 2014