Sunday, October 25, 2009

What To Write A Message In A Book



The news is that Alberto Savinio used his art to be cured from autism.

of September 13, 2009
Alberto Savino, "Fin d'une bataille des anges" (1930)

The art and writing can be used to cure us? In the second half of the twentieth century many philosophers, psychologists and scholars have responded so far. The final Foucault, for example, the less ideological and more attentive to explore the private dimension of human life, saw in the techniques and practices in the "Self" a form of "care" of ourselves ( epimeleia heautou
, a philosophical concept at the heart of ancient ethics). In Italy the good
Duccio Demetrio has contributed decisively to explain how important a "practice of self" as an autobiography to give a modicum of stability to our emotional life, for example in terms of "restoration" of the trauma and mourning. Think of the great literature that you jew-American autobiography personal, family and a nation (from Saul Bellow to Philiph Roth) - telling "at all costs" the truth: all that we can never say on behalf of persons who around us, and those we love is the people unbearable - comes out with ease on the page, without pretense or inner blocks. All this helps us to deal with reality.
of "Art Therapy" is about the essay written by Carlo Alessandro Landini, Italian composer and intellectual who has taught and done research at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and is Past Fellow
's
Italian Academy of New

York. The title of the book, published by Franco Angeli, is intended to throw a stone into the world of art (and art psychology): The blankly. Arts and autism: the case Savinio . That's right, Landini argues that the painter and writer Alberto Savino (aka Andrea De Chirico) Giorgio De Chirico's younger brother, was suffering from autism. Optical errors contained in his paintings, tics and stereotypes of his prose, the introverted nature, the chronic inability of the writer to give prominence to abstract concepts, are all evidence of the assumption underlying the test. As well as portraits of Savinio "that often - says Landini - have the appearance of hallucination ...."

The artist was then suffering from a mitigated form of Asperger syndrome, which also hit Einstein, Glenn Gould and Bobby Fischer, among others. And writing, like painting, were the two "practices" to help address the "disease" to live with it. The "case Savinio "Landini is therefore to describe the problem of autism from a broader perspective, cognitivist, neurological, iconology, and with an eye to the dynamic and relational psychology. A work of amazing subtlety.