The monastery of Fonte Avellana (Pu). April 29 to May 1, 2017 "Journey to the End of the Night: darkness, shadow, splendor"

The Italian Association of Psychoanalysis (AIPsi) and the Monastery of Fonte Avellana organize the V interdisciplinary conference, "Journey to the End of the Night: darkness, shadow, glow" from April 29 to May 1, 2017 at the Monastery of Fonte Avellana (Pu ).
The days of Fonte Avellana aim to make scholars of different comparing extraction, respecting the differences between the disciplines, in the belief that only the intersection of ideas can be fruitful, even more so in an age confused and aesthetically superficial as our. During the days there will be magisterial lectures given by eminent scholars and a section called "Conversations". The Conference participating artists with their performances, performances, exhibitions will give a fundamental contribution and illuminating the subject under discussion.
The Monastery at the annual conferences have been born thanks to the meeting with the enlightened mind of Gianni Giacomelli, monaco and prior of Fonte Avellana, a man of great human and profound cultural depth opening practice simply virtue dell''accoglienza and reciprocity in respect for difference and similarity search. Fonte Avellana, has always been a place of cultural promotion and exchange, it turned out, for every participant of these years, fertile ground for discussion and development of ideas, to create bonds and friendships, but also because the days of the conference are an experience of life, in the freedom of being able to share, not ideologies or preconceived deployments, the beauty of the meeting.
The opposition between light and darkness, since the beginning of humanity, in its rhythmic alternation, had a metaphysical connotations, psychological, ethical. In the founding myths light, it is the creative element, even if the darkness is the necessary antecedent and the inevitable final conclusion. The night is symbolic relationship with the mother's womb protector but also with the end, with the death.
At night, especially for the man of antiquity, it was at the very origins of life, more than the day, as the primordial night dominated before the sun and the moon were created. In the greek myth of the night Nyx is the goddess, dressed in black and with the dress, studded with stars, which during the day resting in a cave in the far West and at sunset, with a wagon that is attached to the blacks horses, traveling in the sky. Nyx is the mother of the gods of vengeance, of evil and death. The night was often associated with the place where dwell the mysterious forces, the predictions, but the magic is also the place of desire and fantasies, Eros and Thanatos. Sigmund Freud through dreams revealed the existence of the unconscious, the dark place where dwells the true self and the history of every man, which allows access to the depths, the hidden, because originally, that the light is often hidden. In the modern world the light is dominant and continues, the darkness is removed even denied, everything is put on display the vision is a pre-defined plenum, nothing can be changed, the creative imagination is inhibited by too bright. The reason of the uninterrupted light seemed to be to ensure, omnipotent fantasy, absolute security, in fact the need is to have absolute control over each and up happening, flatten everything and delete the nuances, everything becomes a false reflection. Disappears any differences or possible conflicts with the dominant thought, even the transgressions are offered and prepackaged, the existence becomes a serial reproduction of a unique code. The time of the suspension, the interval is not tolerated and any possible birth or change must be controlled, programmed, exposed, it disappears private space. The brightly lit. structure an unreal place almost psychotic, where time is an eternal day, but the apparent vitalism hides a deep fear of death. Everything is so shown, actually sets, enough to cause lack of distinction and the hallucination of a shining but I fake almost a fetish.
"In the dark background of my thoughts, - writes Marion Milner- like a dimly lit cave, I could see the glow of a confused half-buried treasure. And then something happened. When I gave up the attempt to find the words to describe the events that were most important to me seemed, and I faced just that dark confusion, sitting and contemplating this memory cave, I began to notice that the thoughts came back to certain objects, those trophies and memories that are reported from vacation. As I watched what had seemed a tangled mass of fragmentary images, kept in the cauldron of my attention, I felt vaguely that formed some concat
curator Matteo De Simone
ordinary psychoanalyst responsible cultural activities Italian Association of Psychoanalysis / AIPsi and full member Internatiomal Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)