"Desire caught by the tail: happiness, loneliness, intensity" Monastery of Fonte Avellana (Pu) 23/25 April
Festivals, Italy, Urbino, Serra Sant'Abbondio, 23 April 2016
The Italian Association of Psychoanalysis (AIPsi) and the Monastery of Fonte Avellana organized the conference: "Desire caught by the tail: bliss, solitude, strength" to be held 23-24-25 April 2016 at the Monastery of Fonte Avellana . This is the fourth multidisciplinary conference, after those of previous years The creative emptiness, death and resurrection, the heart of the body.
The days of Fonte Avellana aim to make scholars of different comparing extraction, respecting the differences between the disciplines, in the belief that only the intersection of ideas can be fruitful, even more so in an age confused and aesthetically superficial as our. During the days there will be magisterial lectures given by eminent scholars and a section called "Conversations". The Conference participating artists with their performances, performances, exhibitions will give a fundamental contribution and illuminating the subject under discussion.
The annual conferences have been born thanks to the Monastery all''incontro with the enlightened mind of Gianni Giacomelli, monaco and prior of Fonte Avellana, human and profound cultural depth largemouth man who practices simply virtue dell''accoglienza and reciprocity respecting differences and looking for similarities. Fonte Avellana, has always been a place of cultural promotion and exchange, it turned out, for every participant of these years, fertile ground for discussion and development of ideas, to create bonds and friendships, but also because the days of the conference are an experience of life, in the freedom of being able to share, not ideologies or preconceived deployments, the beauty of the meeting.

THE PLACE
The Monastery of Fonte Avellana is situated on the wooded slopes of Mount Catria (1701 m.) To 700 meters above sea level.The Monastery of Fonte Avellana is situated on the wooded slopes of Mount Catria (1701 m.) To 700 meters above sea level.
Its origins lie in the late tenth century, around 980, when some hermits chose to build the first cells of a hermitage that over the centuries became the present monastery.The spirituality of these hermits was influenced by St. Romuald of Ravenna, father of the Benedictine Congregation Camaldolese, who lived and worked between the X and XI century in areas very near to Fonte Avellana.
Significant boost gave the work to the abbey of St. Peter Damian, who became Monaco here in 1035 and Prior since 1043, not only for the expansion of the original buildings but also for a strong cultural and spiritual development which made a point of the hermitage religious and social reference. The tradition indicates the number of 76 saints and blessed lived in the hermitage.
The Hermitage is mentioned in the Divine Comedy (Paradiso, canto XXI) by Dante Alighieri, which seems that it was also a guest.
Fonte Avellana has always been a hub of culture and promoter of initiatives and exchanges with scholars from different cultural and religious backgrounds.


THE THEME

Desire is the fundamental theme in the life and thought of man: the Psychoanalytic Reflections on the philosophical, religious and spiritual ones, to the routes of the art or science in general. Nowadays we hear much of an extinction of desire, as if the ability to access, easily, to any enjoyment or satisfaction offered by the company had reduced its scope that continues unresolved research that underlies the desire. As if the desire is now being turned into a sort of autistic pleasure without any investment on an object but only on partial elements, with a predominance of narcissistic behavior that is predominantly envy, rivalry, destructiveness.
The term comes from the desire particle composition of deprivation of the term Latin Sidus, sideris (sidera plural), which means star. Thus, "want", from which "desire" would mean, literally, "the stars" are absent condition where. It seems, in fact, that the term to have originated from the ancient soothsayers language, finding the sky covered with clouds, they were unable to perform their functions divination, not being able to see the stars, from which they drew their prophecies observation. In these particular moments of absence of the starry sky, it lit, then the omens a deep desire of the stars, which continued until they appear again. The etymology is important because it says that you need to want to experience an absence, something missing deep to the point to desire the presence. The desire, does not reside in any place, it resides in a vacuum.

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