Summary
But there is also nostalgia for death, for a face that, as Rilke wrote, haunts us, sometimes impossible to find, as well as nostalgia for life when we are afflicted by illness. Nostalgia that is open to hope is different from nostalgia that remains frozen in the past.
These are some of the words thematized in this book. There is nostalgia wounded by pain, and nostalgia spared from it.
Naturally, Borgna refers to Leopardi and Proust, but also to Emily Dickinson and Guido Gozzano. Ultimately, nostalgia can be understood as a salvaging of the past, as its gift of meaning; and as an antithesis, too, to the dragon of indifference that leads to an emotional wasteland.
With a preface by Michele Dantini.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Wounded Nostalgia
- Bibliography
- Vectors
Contents
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Michele Dantini
Preface
Michele Dantini
Of Eugenio Borgna, we appreciate his objectivity and composure, the measure that gives his texts, never caustic or brutal, the hushed tone of quiet reflection. Yet this moderation conceals a great radicalism. If there is such a thing as an intimately relational psychiatry, based on listening, “humanistic” and anti-authoritarian, this is precisely the psychiatry to associate with Borgna. He invites the psychiatrist to lay down the usual shields of the profession—jargon, statistics, diagnostic tools—and contend first and foremost with the patient’s suffering, acknowledging it not as something alien, but possible, human, of one’s own. The therapeutic relationship thus becomes authentically existential: a process of “healing” and discovery in which the psychiatrist, having excluded any presumptions of foreknowledge or certainty, takes part, in an almost Socratic way, through a shared process of recollection.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 52
- Publication Year
- 2026
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034351058
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034351065
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034351041
- DOI
- 10.3726/b23362
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2026 (January)
- Keywords
- Eugenio Borgna Wounded Nostalgia La nostalgia ferita nostalgia memory time homesickness childhood pyschology pyschiatry
- Published
- Bruxelles, Berlin, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2025. viii, 52 pp.
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