L’identità in questione

Psychoanalysis and hermeneutic philosophy collaborate in a process of construction of identity of which they also recognize the elusive character: identity persists as an unfinished process both for the unconscious and for the conscience.

The dilemma of human identity forms an intricate knot of varied reflection, investigation and dialectical challenge. The authors, starting from the affirmation of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1965) \’the unity of human speech today forms a problem\’, propose a research itinerary between psychoanalysis, psychiatry and philosophy. The first two find a basis for their foundation in hermeneutics, despite the fact that the dimensions of the bios and emotions constantly project them to the borders of the non-hermeneutizable. Busacchi and Martini start from an examination of theories of identity in the philosophical and psychoanalytic fields; the reflection then proceeds by addressing two fields: the body and time. At this point, a comparison with the philosophy of translation and its reflections in the psychoanalytic field and a comparison with the idea of ​​transformation, especially in reference to \’affective matter\’, become necessary, to the point of configuring both as generators of identity.