L’incerto: Paura e bisogno del confine

Abstract

The concept of border is a much-debated topic, also due to numerous planetary crises of political, economic, and religious origin. The present author supports both the usefulness and the necessity of the border qua psychological entity, insofar as its proper function allows for the process of psychological identification to occur. Moreover, the speed of major socio-cultural changes characterising the contemporary era is argued to be compromising the dynamic psychological balance between growth and transformation, whilst providing the illusion of the psyche as an undifferentiated whole.

Keywords

• amplification
• analytic psychology
• border
• claustrophilia
• difference
• differentiation
• imagination
• imagining
• individuation
• integration
• prejudice
• psychoanalysis
• shadow