25/10/2024
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SPT Magazine is pleased to share Genovino Ferri's in-depth consideration of the removal of the Father from his role as the symbol of the West’s patriarchal family. He notes that we are witnessing the erosion of the Family and the consequent removal of the Father. Per Ferri, It is a body psycho-analytical description seeking to clearly articulate the container-contained interaction, placing greater emphasis on the container: ‘Being a Father figure is an organisational, evolutive state in the sense that this “paternal” role may be performed by men, women, individuals, and groups.’”
He notes that the article was born from the intention of putting together a number of “interpretative lenses” to provide a four-dimensional, or 4D, perspective, which is to say to also associate the 4th dimension, time, with its bottom-up arrow, with the three, highly visual dimensions of height, breadth, and length, while including corporeity. He offers a contemporary, Reichian-analytical perspective recounting the birth and transformation of the Father figure, indicating certain bifurcation points in its evolutionary verticality from the beginning of time to today’s instantaneous, horizontal, accelerated existence. His wish is to comprehend our uncertainties' complex contemporaneousness and perhaps offer more appropriate relational patterns with the Other-than-us world. In particular, the object of study is the Father figure in his existence in the “living social body” over the history of our evolution, together with the implications of the network it is correlated with.
He writes, "With the Acceleration in External Time, the Superego, the internal regulator of human behaviour, has moved out and no longer dwells within the family. It has moved into social media, which is polluted by impulsive-consumerist primary orality, chock-full of primitive, reptilian brain patterns originating from the most archaic of our three stratified brains. The parents, the previous repositories of the Superego, have been lost and become disenfranchised, and the Father has been disqualified and is effectively absent."
You can read his article on our website at www.SomaticPsychotherapyToday.com