The Michel Henry’s work and the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia’s work were never compared. Yet both have argued in favour of men affected by mental illness. In this paper, the two authors will be interpreted starting the binomial “Clinic and Life” to clarify what “care of the living being” means. After criticizing what is commonly understood by the definition of “sick life”, we will show the relationship between mental illness and life by referring to the narrative of the pathology that Henry developed in the novel "Le fis du roi". Starting from this novel, first of all, any conception of the disease formulated starting from the au dehors will be criticized and then, we will look for in the Basaglia’s work the clinical presuppositions appropriate to the “care of the living being” affected by mental illness. By the expression “caring for the living” we will understand as the “care of life” is told from a clinical point of view. With this intention, after having proposed a reading of the novel Le fils du roi starting from the interview of Michel Henry and Mireille Calle-Gruber Narrer le pathos, we analyse the pages that Henry devotes to the psychoanalysis in "La Barbarie" and "Généalogie de la psychoanalyse" to conclude with the clinic that Franco Basaglia proposed, and this in order to show the sense of “care” that emerges from their works. It is a “care” whose purpose is the love of the life of every man, mine and that of the other. This is what happens because life that everyone feels in himself is the same for all men and therefore every life is worthy of being narrated as well as listened to.

Clinica e Vita: la cura del vivente con Michel Henry e Franco Basaglia

C. CANULLO
2018-01-01

Abstract

The Michel Henry’s work and the Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia’s work were never compared. Yet both have argued in favour of men affected by mental illness. In this paper, the two authors will be interpreted starting the binomial “Clinic and Life” to clarify what “care of the living being” means. After criticizing what is commonly understood by the definition of “sick life”, we will show the relationship between mental illness and life by referring to the narrative of the pathology that Henry developed in the novel "Le fis du roi". Starting from this novel, first of all, any conception of the disease formulated starting from the au dehors will be criticized and then, we will look for in the Basaglia’s work the clinical presuppositions appropriate to the “care of the living being” affected by mental illness. By the expression “caring for the living” we will understand as the “care of life” is told from a clinical point of view. With this intention, after having proposed a reading of the novel Le fils du roi starting from the interview of Michel Henry and Mireille Calle-Gruber Narrer le pathos, we analyse the pages that Henry devotes to the psychoanalysis in "La Barbarie" and "Généalogie de la psychoanalyse" to conclude with the clinic that Franco Basaglia proposed, and this in order to show the sense of “care” that emerges from their works. It is a “care” whose purpose is the love of the life of every man, mine and that of the other. This is what happens because life that everyone feels in himself is the same for all men and therefore every life is worthy of being narrated as well as listened to.
2018
978-85-86736-79-7
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