LANGUAGE: THE SPACE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS. PIERLUIGI LIA’S CONSIDERA TIONS ON COMEDY

Abstract

The language of the Commedia is not the only medium chosen by Dante to let us take part in his deep theological and scientific knowledge of his ardent passion, but also the founding and constitutive element of his knowledge and of Dante himself, as reported in Lia’s considerations. He takes from Aristotele the dynamic vision of the psyche that Adler will consider the most important concept of his theory. Also Adler’s holism is anticipated in the Commedia where soul, mind, body and language are considered inseparable. The greed punished in hell, is the egotistic desire of power, while the salvific desire for the highness is the aspiration to the superiority, everything tends to this and it can only be realized within others in the community to which he freely belongs, guided by justice and love. Considering that language is the place of Plato’s unconscious, Dante brings removals from psychopathology to gnoseology and neurophysiology.
Finally he carried out a close examination of communication within the psychoanalysis, outlining the role ofthe analyst which is prestigious and full of responsibilities; he gives full generative power to the language as fruitful womb of the subconscious, reintegrating the full value of the woman, living paradigm of this power