«No specialized science will be enough to address historical and social problems that have individual and group psychological implications and consequences.
Instead, there is a need for a philosophical anthropology that is a theory and a praxis connected to a secular and biographical spirituality capable of integrating and correlating specialized knowledges in a real, concrete transdisciplinarity.»
Romano Màdera
Romano Màdera is a philosopher and psychoanalyst.
He called his proposal in the field of research and treatment of meaning, Philosophically Oriented Biographic Analysis (Analisi Biografica a Orientamento Filosofico: ABOF).
He founded the School of ABOF and the Society of Philosophical Analysts (SABOF).
He was Full Professor of Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Practices at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Professor at the School of ABOF until the academic year 2023-2024.
He previously teached at the University of Calabria and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
He is a member of AIPA, the Italian Association of Analytical Psychology, IAAP, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, LAI, the Analytical Image Laboratory and the Association for the Study of Sandplay in Analytical Practice, and part of the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Analytical Psychology, Rivista di Psicologia Analitica.
He is one of the founders of the Open Seminars on Philosophical Practices and of the Italian Association of Philosophical Practices, Philo-Pratiche Filosofiche, and he collaborates in its cultural center’s initiatives.
Romano Màdera is a philosopher and psychoanalyst.
He called his proposal in the field of research and treatment of meaning, Biographical Analysis Philosophically Oriented (Analisi Biografica a Orientamento Filosofico: ABOF).
He founded the School of ABOF and the Society of Philosophical Analysts (SABOF).
He was Full Professor of Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Practices at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Professor at the School of ABOF until the academic year 2023-2024.
He previously teached at the University of Calabria and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
He is a member of AIPA, the Italian Association of Analytical Psychology, IAAP, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, LAI, the Analytical Image Laboratory and the Association for the Study of Sandplay in Analytical Practice, and part of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, the Italian Journal of Analytical Psychology.
He is one of the founders of the Open Seminars on Philosophical Practices and of the Italian Association of Philosophical Practices, Philo-Pratiche Filosofiche, and he collaborates in its cultural center’s initiatives.
«I did not live to write, but I wrote to live more consciously and to help my brothers with thoughts that do not arise merely from my mind, but spring from a Higher Source that can perhaps be called Spirit.»
Raimon Panikkar
«I do not seek neutral readers. Neutral readers do not exist.
I therefore address only those to whom this book is dedicated: “companions,” here too, not in name nor bound by orthodoxies I cannot recognize, men and women of whom I know but few, capable of accepting, processing and living through a defeat that marks an epoch, without renouncing the meaning of their dreams, of our utopia. (…)
The companions I allude to are those with whom it is good and healthy to break and share bread, to live the common fate of men and women who must also bear, as an additional burden, belonging to a culture that hates sharing existence, worships the senseless accumulation of things.
These companions also know how to chew bitterness, as is necessary today, not only to avoid losing ourselves, certainly, but also because with our utopias, with their survival and renewal, we contribute to the very difficult attempt to “save the dignity of humanity.”
A phrase both pathetic and grandiose, a willful Dostoevskyan memory, unforgivably ridiculous. Yet this judgment is, far more unforgivably, indebted to “human respect”.»
Romano Màdera
