Settineri, Salvatore

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Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology  MJCP   
ISSN: 2282-1619   
VOL. 5, N.2  (2017)   
Book Review   
 
Memory and Anima Mundi. The margins of life and death 
 
     
Author Ferdinando Testa, IOD s.r.l., Napoli 2017 
   
  
The work includes a series of interventions collected and edited by F. Testa, 
who aims to participate in that wider action of Jungian thought that has the 
objective to recover the Soul, returning to the Imagination its central role in 
the Individuation process.This path has more chances than the authors decline 
under different reading keys, the first of which starts from the myth of 
Mnemosyne, which through the memory allows the Individuation process. So 
T. Menna stresses how memories related to people bring us to the essence, to 
the creation of a vocabulary of knowledge that preserves the Soul. 
S. Fermariello through a fascinating incipit for which the plant is the 
expression of autotrophic life, compares vegetal life, in which it is possible to 
trace a profound sacredness, religious in the sense of binding, in 
understanding the disease, as a trace of human experience.  
 
 
  
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In this path, S. Lucariello's article oscillates in the disturbing question of the 
life-death bond, speaking of this relationship from the point of view of the 
maternal relationship and the relative  
clinic, which finds in the Medea model the mythical reference.M. Nicolosi 
emphasizes how analytic psychology has resumed Freudian concepts for 
reshaping libido, the pattern of psychic functioning and the intuition of the 
existence of the objective psyche. The epigram drawn from Psalm 8 
introduces E. Scognamiglio's article, in which memory is the point of arrival 
to make people free and self-critical.The essay ends with F. Testa's article 
dedicated to the paradoxes of completeness in which he lets us see the needs 
of the archetypal dimension of spiritual research as a premise for the creation 
of that garden that is the Anima Mundi.  
This article reaffirms the importance of entering into the interior of man 
through the sense that penetrates where current medicine has devoid of sense 
body and mind illness, splitting them as positivist fragmentation. The essay 
has not many pages, because of the necessity that the curator invokes. Great 
reflections to recover unifying spiritual and material principles.  
  
  
  
Salvatore Settineri  
  
University of Messina, Italy   
 
 
  
  
 © 2014 by the Author(s); licensee Mediterranean Journal of Clinical 
Psychology, Messina, Italy. This article is an open access article, licensed 
under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Mediterranean 
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2017.    
Doi: 10.6092/2282-1619/2017.5.1611 


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