CORPO, UMANO

05.12.2024

Vittorio Lingiardi is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and above all, for us, a poet. Corpo, umano contains everything: science, art, and literature. Paintings, symbols, and visions. Lingiardi divides it into three sections: the remembered body, the detailed body, and the rediscovered body. In the second section, for example, there are the hair, a part that concerns all of us, with its vast iconography. A symbol of sacrifice, youth, old age, a powerful social communicator, at the center of many sayings: “I have a devil for a hair,” “split a hair in four,” “don’t twist a hair…”.
But, Lingiardi points out, “I am convinced that in the psyche of hair there is much more…”.
This book interests us because it is intelligent, sharp, full of revelations. A perfect gift for anyone who loves knowledge, beauty, and especially, art.

Vittorio Lingiardi, Corpo, umano, Einaudi, 2024.