2024 Programme
Event #8
Saturday 31 August, 10.45 am
Matteotti square1 - euro 4.50
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Massimiliano Valerii, Luigi Zoja
Italy: splendour and decline, emotions and numbers
In Italy, ingratitude and betrayal, grandeur and pettiness have become foundational, often overshadowing true greatness. This can be seen in the actions of the Risorgimento patriots, who betrayed their sovereigns out of loyalty to the ideal of unity, and in the shifting international alliances during the two World Wars. The character of Italians—the identity of a nation—is built through great narratives, seen as essential frameworks of meaning. While indispensable, these narratives can become traps if they betray the expectations they create. Expertly moving between history and art, economics and politics, customs and mass psychology, Luigi Zoja and Massimiliano Valerii, explorers of the imagination from complementary perspectives, reflect on the epochal shift we are facing and the new spectres that have begun to haunt us.
Massimiliano Valerii is the General Director of Censis. He oversees the annual Report on the Social Situation of the Country, which has been published since 1967. He teaches Media, Society, and Institutions in the Master's degree program in Publishing and Writing at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of the essays "La notte di un’epoca" (2019), "Il contagio del desiderio" (2020), and "Le ciliegie di Hegel" (2022), all published by Ponte alle Grazie.
Luigi Zoja is a psychoanalyst and sociologist. Former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, he has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and the University of Insubria. He has published books and articles in fourteen languages, including "Vedere il vero e il falso" (Einaudi, 2018); "Il gesto di Ettore" (Bollati Boringhieri, 2000), "Paranoia" (Bollati Boringhieri, 2011), "Psiche" (Bollati Boringhieri, 2015), and "Narrare l’Italia" (Bollati Boringhieri, 2024).
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Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
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