The paper presents the phenomenological conception of bodily perception as a possible therapeutic model for treating melancholic depression. At the beginning, it discusses some key concepts of Freud’s psychoanalysis: instinct, memory, perception, narcissism and melancholia. Next, the Freudian theory of melancholia is compared with studies of phenomenological psychopathology. It is investigated how melancholia is based on the division of temporal relations. Finally, the main problem of the paper is investigated: can the structure of perception and its constitutive openness toward the (...) future represent a theoretical model for therapeutic practices designed to treat melancholic depression? (shrink)

Kant's account of emotions has only recently begun to receive the attention that this topic deserves, as it casts new light over the manifold features of transcendental philosophy. The authors expand the contemporary overview of the Kantian treatment from both a neuroscientific and a continental philosophical perspective. The volume opens paths to reevaluate neglected aspects of the Kantian model of human rationality.

The introduction to the Dossier on mental disorder in the work of Kant considers the relationship between philosophy and medicine. Its brief suggestions are linked to only one form of pathology: hypochondria, on the one hand; and a highly particular aspect of mental disorder: its relationship with criminal accountability or, if we wish, the legitimacy of punishment, on the other hand.

Gli studi platonici e l'eredità hegeliana -- Musica tra matematica ed etica -- Musica, dialettica, gli esiti neo-platonici ed umanisti : distanza e vicinanza di Gadamer.

This essay shows the logical interpretation of the perception in Peirce to highlight Leibniz’s influence on the conception of associative representation. This influence conditions Peirce’s interpretation of Kant’s intuitive apprehension and initiates the interpretation of the individual as essentially relational. That concept is deepened by Peirce’s studies on the logic of relations and even more on the logic of continuity. The relational individual is the key concept for a possible social-political interpretation of the continuous by Peirce. The relationship between individual (...) and continuous, based on the notions of possible and relation, offers the model to conceive the ego as originally social. The relational nature of the individual is also analysed with reference to the doctrine of chances. In this context, it emerges clearly the relationship of logic with society and with Peirce’s political conceptions. This paradigm can also be traced back to the analyses by Leibniz (studies of natural law). (shrink)