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be CONSULTED
even for learning. And so this Web site will always be
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matter of fact
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lament
hindrances on looking through this site, and asked to be better
orientated. To favor this need the site's map changed: as first sight
one can begin from a simplified
page opening wide the whole indexed
files, both the Italian and the English and plurilingual ones, eventually before looking at the file prefacing
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future
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up-graded: to be carefully informed also on the past more significant
ones it is suitable to go to the dedicated file Novelties on
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Here's the book holding for English
readers all English
pages to
become a
book as Italian one: particular books coming
directly
from an - always
up-dated -
website as - unfortunately
- its static
supplement. Usually
the
references and turns to other chapters are presented
in
books as footnotes: but a book cannot become too weighed down with
a widest series of notes, links and referrals so easily instead added
to a website. Therefore the
conventional
printed page cannot keep up with the evolution of a website,
constantly
and punctually updated with ever refreshed links which are proposals
for the
acquisition
of actual and varied information.
Any way even if the offered references could be also too bulky for the
harmony of a printed book, they can notwithstanding be
displayed in a perhaps more
influential
way, applying a technical
implement:
every picture, every UNDERLINED
title
of books or articles, sites, authors, citations or even apparently
simple
words or quotes are Web contextual files where the
- carefully
chosen and continually
revised
- data can easily be reached
but ONLY there, as Web
hyperlinks.
Besides, since a Web site
can
follow other rules and allows more possibilities, every Web page can be
read by itself as an "article". Coming directly from it, the derived
chapters
of this "common book" enables it to be read by itself and not regularly
as a "chapter" of a "usual" book: no matter then if often many
whole
paragraphs are set - more or less identical - in many chapters as they
belong to many files. On the
other hand the
material in a
conventional book must follow a linear logical
structure
of precise "chapters" and an index referring to rigidly numbered pages,
when a Web site
can
follow other rules and allows more possibilities: so every Web page can
be
read by itself as a magazine "article "or better as a Encyclopedia's
lemma
And also the numerous inner
references
are only indirectly
displayed by UNDERLINED
words.
The most praiseworthy
possibilities
of the Internet are interchanges and consequent offers of immediate
renew:
in order to keep the readers as up to date as possible,
each
passage
comes equipped with numerous bibliographies by hypertextual
links
which
may, on first reading, seem somewhat crammed and discordant, or can be
even difficult to appreciate as a non static bibliography in a constant
state of rehandle and renewal. Therefore reading long paragraphs which
expound
complex arguments can be tiring if done on the computer screen, and for
this reason the book
version of the site
was proposed, even if this version does of course remain
static
and cannot be updated whereas a website is characterized by the
possibility
of having an open
and flexible bibliography of hyperlinks (immediate
referrals
to hypertext)
which can be promptly
updated with every new data
acquisition
and enable the possibility of internal
revision.
The advantage of a book
of course is that it can be read anywhere, (and
passages of
significant
interest can be labeled), but, if one wishes to remain up-to-date you
are
advised to refer often
to the site
both to see the revisions
and
referrals and to amplify or renew knowledge of subjects of interest to
all.
As quoted above, cannot have a printed book the immediacy of
cross-referenced chapter
and argument and cannot be corrected or rectified once published?
Therefore if cannot correspond exactly to the site
and
cannot mirror its evolutionary stages, all
references can be
also reached since
indirectly
displayed as every UNDERLINED
words and also almost every images want to send towards the Web
corresponding Web
hyperlinks.
This choice
doesn't give an usual presentation of "references": according to
customary book it can look instead ill-defined and tangled. But on
purpose this option is settled upon to offer not a
simple "list" but an open view
on
the direct actuality of their presentation, moreover on regard of books
and publications it send to a wider
immediate possibility to browse afar: even on and from mighty
data-bases of Web
virtual books stores as Amazon
and Barnes
& Noble,
and the Italian but also International Unilibro and
Ibs.it
and with
their readers' comments, similar
books' offers, comparative list of other books by the same Author and
same Printing House, and even sometimes presenting samples of the
book's content. A
suggestion:
anyone who can understand
both languages is encouraged to read both books, since they are
not
mirrors of each other. The content
is not the same: not only since
- at least only up to now - some important Italian files haven't been
translated,
and some file/chapters are not included
in both. Also many bibliographies
are different in their complementary data. Many
references are only in one and not in the other: a more plentiful
bibliography
can be found in the English files and books and if in
the English book many chapters are lacking, There are however
chapters
absent in the Italian book: "guest-pages" as FlashbacksandMemory
Recovery
and Screen Memories will
be included, together with this new
high-priority file - TOTEM
AND TABOO REVISITED: awful and fertile rise of new
SUPERSTITIONS
-,
at present already printed as a chapters in another book:It's
Abuse NOT Science
fiction(respectively as chapters: 21, 32 and
26).
This page is the English mirror
of the corresponding Italian page, both abstracting the presentation of
the displayed books and their main subjects, in all topics connected to
their bibliographic sources. They both address very important subjects
which may seem simplistic but are, in fact, both controversial and
difficult
in reality: since the arguments address the personal
life of ANYONE in all its contradictions.
Thus linked book titles
or Authors' names, as well as the links suggesting assorted external
Web
sites share a helpful continually up-dated bibliography. Preference has
been given - assuring: after careful philological study - to data not
generally
in the public domain and erstwhile little known and all the referrals
are
chosen with care and guarantee the source of the information expounded
and on the site are updated from one day to the next with new
information
or rectification. The most praiseworthy possibilities of the Internet
are
interchanges and consequent offers of immediate renew: in order to keep
the readers as up to date as possible, each passage comes equipped
with numerous bibliographical and hypertextual links which may, on
first
reading, seem somewhat crammed and discordant, or can be even difficult
to appreciate as a non static bibliography in a constant state of
rehandle
and renewal. Moreover reading long paragraphs which expound complex
arguments
can be tiring if done on the computer screen, and for this reason the
book
version of the site was proposed, even if this version does
of course remain static and cannot be updated whereas a website
is characterized by the possibility of having an open and flexible
bibliography
of hyperlinks (immediate referrals to hypertext) which can be promptly
updated with every new data acquisition and enable the possibility
of internal revision. Therefore the conventional printed page cannot
keep up with the evolution of the website, constantly and punctually
updated
with links which are proposals for the acquisition of actual and
varied information. The advantage of a book of course is that it
can be read anywhere, (and passages of significant interest can be
labeled),
but, if one wishes to remain up-to-date you are advised to refer often
to the site both to see the revisions and referrals and to amplify
or renew knowledge of subjects of interest to all. Usually the
references
and turns to other chapters are presented in books as footnotes: but a
book cannot also become too weighed down with a so wide series of
notes,
links and referrals, so easily instead added to a website. It cannot
have
the immediacy of cross-referenced chapter and argument and cannot be
corrected
or rectified once published. Therefore a book deriving from a website
cannot
correspond exactly to the site and cannot mirror its evolutionary
stages.
As written above, in this particular book, since coming directly from
an
- always up-dated - website and being its "static" supplement, the
references
can be only indirectly displayed: every UNDERLINED
title of books or articles, sites, authors, citations or even
apparently
simple words or quotes want to send towards the Web corresponding files
where the - carefully chosen and continually revised - data
can ONLY easily be reached as Web hyperlinks. The material
in a conventional book must, on the other hand, follow a linear logical
structure of precise "chapters" and an index referring to rigidly
numbered
pages, but this fact does give seldom more problems since the content
of a site is instead subdivided into "files", which follow the
non-linear
logic of the net; it is in fact thanks to the world wide web that files
can be cross-referenced each to the other and internal content linked
and
cross-referenced also: and so entire paragraphs of text can be moved
from
one file to another, depending on the need to correct and/or add new
information.
However
for both the books and site you are advised to read only the pages of
text first and avoid the temptation to follow up
links in order
to onlythen fully appreciate
AT FIRST HAND the
information
that the links contain. Even if perhaps seem ugly to look at and at
first
sight difficult to value, these topics take readers to significant
references,
but one has at first to read only straight through the text,
disregarding
its links since so many, crossed referenced may give rise to confusion.
Only on a second reading should the reader follow the links and
overcome
the possible confusion of numerous referrals to further explore the
arguments
and controversies which are of interest to all. Only in second place
are
they useful as keen advice to go towards or over the themes and
arguments
which are the most interesting for everyone. In fact this reading of
the
information contained in the links (which are in a state of constant
renewal)
is the TRUE AIM of the site and the books, and the
reader is
invited
not to neglect them but to frequently check not only the content of the
text pages but also the files / chapters addressed merely to links to
various
external sites - both Italian and international.
The presented
books, as well as the files of this site related to them, could
be assumed to be in the field of - if one can call it so -
"childish-ness"
and "family-ness": subjects which could be considered to mean
unimportant,
little, retiring matters, and - or else - feminine.
Instead, children, home-life and
house-work are at the very basic ROOTS
of mankind, are at the basic core of primary concreteness,
and so the studies regarding them become the principle way to plan a
deep,
real knowledge on the entire wisdom of humanity. "Unimportant, little,
retiring, merely feminine"? On the contrary - since, and
according
to the fact that the child
is the father
of the man (as stated
by Maria
Montessori)
- the whole true meaning of these books, of this site itself and - more
- of this whole work-in-progress is to point out loud and
clear
the preference for a solid study which has to go on from BEGINNINGS
(plural), by the very seeds, by the natural, typical, BASIC origins.
Consequently
these studies must also be themselves in continuing progress, under
constant
remodeling for a - hoped fruitful - evolution. Development
is NOT mere quantitative growth: childhood, the
very
long
childhood of the human species, and its development can not take place
unless they open up from a preceding “envelopment”:
they must
materialize
through delicate, protected courses, rich
and
enriching in variety and complexity (through the famous complexes),
but equally fragile and vulnerable as a consequence. Times -
in
the plural - cannot simply indicate transformation
in order not
to be mistaken for a mere change from one modality (if not from one
“mode”)
to another. The
child has a
hundred tongues, ninety nine of which
are
stolen from him/her..., says Loris
Malaguzziin his poetry, but and moreover each
well
dispatched,
not “stolen”, stage of these precious
features
and passages should remain active for the whole life like a
well-studied and fully acquired school subject.
The final chapter of the Italian book Domestic
chores. Ergonomy and psychology of a TRUE work
is
entitled Children
of YESTERDAY = today's adults.Today's adults… adults of TOMORROW,
and thus hints at the true essential reader to whom this book is
addressed. It
concerns even today's adults as such and not only as actual children as
TOMORROW'S adults.
All this is here noticed and explained,
described and discussed in each topic: also by reading the many quoted Authors;
by the insistence maintained on the importance of basics;
by the
repeated
use of words pertaining to the verb and noun found
("fundamental",
"foundation"...):
at least by the emphasis put on the importance of - fulfilling or
troubled
- developmental
differentiated
phases,
and their dissimilarity from simple increases.
As
one only unified Web-page here are shared TWO
different
books:
strictly connected together,
but not so intrinsically to be a "first"
and "second" volume
under the
same
title.
In fact they are very different in
style, and reflect each other
since they handle the same theme
from frontingangles.
The books on show are specular,
not consequential. In fact while Domestic
chores. Ergonomy and psychology of a TRUE work
is
connected
to Childhood
mutability's times,
they both concern anyone who, for good or evil, is growing
up, and anyone who, recently or long ago, has turned adult, if
not
mature or even old. In fact, every serious, profound
study dealing with Human Nature, should not prescind from its
foundations:
hence the true, absolute aim and planning in these books and site (even
more in the prolonged, continuous work underneath) is to try and
explain
in the most forcefully and clearly possible way how important the
knowledge
of the seed, the BEGINNINGS,
starts
and origins in their most natural, typical, basic features: in their
founding
vicissitudes and changes.
The main aim of the books and web
site and their future updating (in continuous refashioning and - I hope
- improvements) is thus to succeed in portraying at their best the
CHANGES
in their courses, which in full normality may seem irregular, but which
are, on the contrary, marked by typical, recurrent cycles: these
cycles,
alas!, not always realized, are endowed with intrinsic regularity and
clearly
differentiated alternations. Few occasional anecdotal, sentimental
descriptions
are not sufficient to get an effective, unaltered idea of how one's
life
is realized. Neither should dynamic concepts, like
childhood
and
domestic life, be distorted and mystified through nominalistic axioms:
they must be known in their true FUNDAMENTAL essence, they must be
presented
and made known in their vital, mutable reality. By its very nature such
reality is not static; it is undergoing a perennial transformation and
reshaping that can, in turn, spread to environment. The receivers and
selected
users of books and site are therefore NOT single categories, NOT the
parents,
NOT the educationalists, NOT the utopians, NOT the polemicists,
regardless
whether optimistic or pessimistic. YESTERDAY'S children are ALL
today's
grown-ups (including mature and old people). All living
people must
be able to identify themselves in the past or forlorn phases.
At
the
same time, who can influence TOMORROW'S ADULTS if not TODAY'S ADULTS
through
today's children? How can one feel truly and deeply so really
adult
to guarantee to TOMORROW'S ADULTS a sturdyGENERATIONAL
MARKING OFF for to can really offer solid and not shaky
reference
marks?
The following paragraphs can also
be found in the file Consciousness
and
memory;
their content, however, is to be traced and recalled over and
over
again in operation with a subject whose topic, and difficult debate is GENERACTIVITY,
i.e. dynamic contact between generations. Resilience
shows
the capacity
of a material to absorb ENERGY under shock and to
absorb
shocks. Fragile materials ABSORB limited energy, ductile
materials
absorb much energy. Fragility is associated with rigidity as the
incapacity
to absorb shocks, though sometimes the almost similar "delicacy" can be
present in a not in a rigid way, but only by protecting itself within a
narrow and limited space. In confined space a similar non-rigidity can
give way to a certain plastic flexibility: this is NOT an evolutive
solution
as it restricts the situation to a single direction, next of kin to conformist
adaptability. In the best of cases the
adult
vulnerability
in a limited person can only stagnate and prevent the possibility of
renovating
experiential enrichments. Therefore in generation
after
generation
with often increasing devastating results, the children brought up
according
to such a pre established norm will grow only finalized to a static
and narrow pseudo-maturity, will miss the best
of
developmental
wealth, will not profit by each new experience and cannot modify the
whole
system of development. They moreover cannot start new syntheses and
renewals
and also miss and disparage their baby and childhood memories if not
the whole
memory.
Flexibility and capacity to fit
in well are thus NOT synonyms of ductile elasticity, which is, on the
contrary,
the resilient capacity to absorb and validate energy contributions:
starting
from there, new creative openings towards new evolutionary routes are
always
possible, and these assimilated experiences - whether good or bad
- once integrated into one's life constitute the sources
of vital wisdom,
A brief
essential semantic
note on the terms evolution
and development
is here
required. Evolution
means something more broad in term on space and time than development. Only
entities, already
present and still unvoiced, can develop:
while every moment the ambiance's
stimuli
can modify every life. If every moment living beings have to act for
maintain the internal homeostasis, nevertheless "well
built", "well developed" sturdy organisms and minds can not only
"accept" but also make
the best on integrating themselves with the new situations: they can
not only "learn by experience" since even transform every occurrence
in great creative forces which can promote -
one could
almost say GENERATE
-
evolutions in new and totally unexpected directions. (See again the
concept of resilience
and the final quote of Anamnesis: a
way for
healing...)
In the pages of the book
on Childhood: mutability's times
(as was
also
the case with the previous edition Violence against
the child)
the first chapter is entitled Childhood does not
exist.
Development
exists and development
is a
liberating change. The present
research and writings
came from a series of
articles in Il
Giornale dei
genitori, till its first column with the
title Childhood:
a very difficult
job, in parallel to the section Parents'
job. This is one of the less optimistic features in human
development,
to be put up as a notice, if not a warning, to the users of this
work. Today's adults against
tomorrow's
adults…? or even rather also - and perhaps above all - for
the
grown-up children
of yesterday, coming to grips with their own well or
badly-lived
childhood.
These writings must be of interest not only for people
dealing
with children today, i.e. the now-developing beings, but also who then
can draw any advantage from them? EVERYBODY,
to be stressed: EVERYBODY, provided they are prepared to put into
operative -
and therefore reconstructive - question one's personal experience of
those
redeeming changes; everyone, I repeat everyone who, after recognizing
themselves
in their past self, would and could admit what a difficult job
has
to accomplish anyone who is now going through its passages.
To
spread out, to
develop. One
spreads out coiled, rolled and wrapped things, one develops the germs
of life.
Only the enveloped ones develop. Where
there is no
wrapping, there is
no margin for development.
tells the Italian Synonyms
and
contrariesNiccolò Tommaseo's
classic Dictionary.
Each person is unique and
peculiar,
provided to develop according to typical perspectives that happen according
to one's own modalities. Not only developments can have their
prepared
program - whose intrinsic nature is to give expansion to what
is
already
there in germ - but ever renovating evolutions
could
not
stop at the bureaucratic coming of age. They can evolve in creative and
unexpected re-openings, incremented by the ability to exchange
intensive
communication with what is different and still unknown. In each period
of life the knowledge of these mutable dynamics
grows in value
allowing
each period of life to be able to recognize and accept intensive
communications,
to reconstruct
faulty
passages, and open up to resulting changes and
expansions.
In fact, whereas the basic concept here expressed is the accurate
description
of early ages development in its specific vicissitudes, one
must
also bear in mind that “maturity”
is
also generative and not only marks a
stabilized space
within
the perspective of gradual decline. Independently from the age of
development,
an endless, and therefore unforeseeable, series of evolving processes
can
side or follow. The processes are expressed in a series of passages
evolving
in turn into cones of expansion, whose various stages run after each
other
and come together in wider spirals towards new sectors. Adult
creativity in EVOLUTIVE processes is a phenomenon comparable
to
parenthood:
everyone can, somehow, become the parent of a series of renewed
selves,
that can always be renewable; all life everyone should be capable of
performing
the very special parents' job at their best; everyone should be able to
maintain a resilient ductility and an absorbing capacity preserving
unexpected
possibilities of renovation and expansion. Rather: no one should
deprive
oneself of them, and succumb into fragility and a closed, static,
stiffened
vision of the world.
Also
"facts" have their
evolutionary phases
All this
does not however regard only
personal lives and growth since also "facts" have their evolutions and
evolutionary phases: the concept of dynamic realities does not only
concern
living beings, but also facts
that,
in turn, are activated through phases and evolutions.
In such a way, following the pattern
of the so multiform
domestic chores,
almost all true work can be identified, and its development followed
starting
from the original paradigm. Since in domestic
chores one can find the pure basics of the normal
proceedings
which give rhythm to the normal childhood's growing up, one can
therefore
describe them as representative prototypes, as general paradigms of
every
other work, job or profession. Thus, on the model of developments of
house-work,
all other activities, works and jobs can have the portrayals of their
arousing
keys: that is to say that house work are WORK BASIS of every kind of
adult's
task, that is to say that in the domestic chores one could
find
the
very basic
subjective foundations of many types of work, jobs, crafts, employment
and even business, and all this in different manners according to
different
people's customs or different programs of life-style. (Look
for
more specialistic - sociological and economical - data at the
file/chapter What is ‘
Emotional
Labour’?, together with Organizations
as
thereunder
quoted one.
In other words, in their specularity,
both books - one on the side of the children, the other on the side of
the
adults - contribute to a consideration not
only
of human beings' but also of human activities' developing paradigms:
which follow
each other and connect in passages NOT casual and disorganized: regular
and consequential even if not set in a simple line but in
progressive differentiate circles towards naturally set opening of
orbital trajectories.
The web site and the books topics
explain, describe and discuss all this, with the help of
quotations
from various authors. The natural set of such a series is why so much
importance is laid everywhere
on the concept of Basic;
that is
why
the usage of terms coming from the stem fund
is so frequent. fundamental: above all, that is the
reason
why the concept of changes entered the title of one of the books, and
why
so much multifaceted emphasis is laid on the fact that each development
is NOT mere growth, but it is correlated with and realized
through fundamental
phases.
Hence: a prospering development
must have the aim of a true, sturdy RIPENESS:
a term, and a concept about, which appears perfectly depicted in the
heading
of the web site with the famous Shakespearean sentence: ripeness
is all (King
Lear V Act, II scene). But for them to be
validly assumed
as the foremost subjects of the founding basic imprinting
of
everyone, childhood
and home-life
have to be really
known
in their fundamental, MUTABLE
essence:
these subjects have to be always marked in their living - i.e. NOT
STATIC
- mutable, unsettled transforming and remodeling reality. Any way the
main
aim of these books (and site) is consequently to describe at best and
deeply
for present and future the rule of every development with its recurring
- well accomplished or in whichever way disorganized - physiological
even
if developing followingvery
differentiated cycles.
All this only presets the preference for pointing out a reasoning which
follows strictly the idea of differentiated
ways (always
plural):
a thought asserting that every evolutive advance succeeds through ways
apparently unconnected, even if instead joined one to one into a precise
calendar: which must not
be interfered with in order to to avoid the outcome
of a
handicapped
or sick
true ripeness.
Working hard or
working smart?
There's
a difference between working
hard andworking
smart, between
being busyand beingproductive
Libreria
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Three are the KEY
concepts of this book:
house work is at the
BASIS of every kind of adult's task since in
domestic chores
one can find the very basic
subjective foundations of many types of work, jobs, crafts, toils and
even
business, and all this in different ways according to different
people's
customs or life-styles.
(On an American tv commercial one could
have heard: life
is
messy. clean it up, and instead in another site
one
could have heard a British woman say that American women have to do it all
while English
women settle for muddling
through) But mainly: everyone, EACH OF US, both
women and men is its PROTAGONIST,
each
of us takes part in it, even if living as single; each of us could be
for
the time being either she/he working "house-holder", or cohabitant
with,
patron and/or customer of, the house-holder: every one is
notwithstanding
a member of a "home" one of the more fundamental socio-economic units.
Better still: everyone is - for ever! -
a SON/DAUGHTER developing
or
yet
to develop even after the parents' death, even if developed as an
orphan
only dreaming of a parental home.
To sum up this book looks not only at
the consequences on grown-ups of their own phases of development, but,
side by side, also explains how they could aid - and not
OBSTRUCT
- the restless even if precisely
cadenced
thriving of the new generations. So everyone can
read in-depth the parts of the book she/he judges as more interesting,
but I suggest EVERYBODY read
any way the last
chapterChildren
of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's
adults->adults of TOMORROW
Above I suggested EVERYBODY
to read at least the concluding chapter of the book: Domestic
chores. Ergonomy and psychology of a REAL
work: Children
of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's
adults->adults of TOMORROWwhich
also mirrors this other one: INFANZIA:
tempo di mutamenti (Childhood:
times of mutability) since both surely concern
everyone,
everyone who - well or badly - is "developing" right now, but even
everyone
who - recently or no matter how long ago - had developed to the
age
of an adult if not to the latest old age. Therefore in order for every
one to exist at
the present they must have been surely a new-born and a child; every
actual
grown-up must have gone through the - no matter if for him
good
or
bad - very long and apparently messed up human
development,
so messed to look sometimes as going through a disease, not through a
NORMAL
phase.
The human evolution is so very long and complicated
since it is finalized to allow AT BEST the ACCOMPLISHMENT
of the mighty amount of human possibilities. To allow human beings
their
greatly differentiated expansion towards so many realms of reality,
such
a journey is just built up as so difficult - really indeed by Nature
itself
- with its apparent wanders through different, very different
phases
(called by Freud: complexes
and by Erikson stages),
each one with its times,
paces, rhythms, needs and expressions. Therefore it is very wrong to
tell "the child"
without distinguishing his manifestations age by age, as if one could
be
the same when he is a
little baby
(without
considering that even little babies get different not only month by
month
but day by day) or pupil or when still
a teen-ager. If, in reality every pace of human expansion ("complex")
has
its well defined times, every pace has also well defined needs,
manifestations,
emotions and pleasures: each of them is a milestone to promote the
further
precise faculties, personalized also towards the best particular
preferences
and style and to prepare to direct all this towards the personally more
significant skills and activities. All this can point towards reaching
a maximum of human skills and emotional development, but in
reality such a puzzling way is a minefield since each "complex" has to
develop itself slowly, and in a rigorous way: each one after each other
in a well-organized progression even if seemingly very untidy since
each
phase begins and ends suddenly, and differs very much from the
preciding, and
from the following one.
It would be almost logical to think - and
not,
as so often occurs,misunderstand
and
minimize - that a person
could
have been damaged in hiswholedevelopment
when these stages had been misguided or hindered. A voluntary
disregard
can interfere in the natural outcome of development, but - what is
worse
- unfortunately more often such a long-lasting damaging
disrespect
occurs and rises. (Go to the file / chapter TOTEM
AND TABOO REVISITED: awful and fertile rise of new SUPERSTITIONS).
Capricious fashions
tend
towards to prescribe that developmental manifestations, totally
ill-considered,
have to be labeled as meaningless if not naughtiness; the "childhood",
felt as only an unique bulk, as a shabby, nasty
To better assure how these ideas are
real
and willing to act, read the pages Etiology
& Treatment of Childhood,
andDelgado
e Skinner: the
path is then wide open to can
trouble on
purpose, to can knowingly damage children's expressions
and
their related needs, no matter if from disparaging them, or on the
contrary if from favourishing
the inconsistent demands of spoilt
tyrants. All this is better explained on Introduction,
Consciousness
and
memoryand Childhood:
times of mutabilitywhere it
is pointed out how wide
followed
capricious fashions - often "perched" on pseudoscientific data -
theorize
persuasively to bring up "pathologic" children in a "pathologic" way.
Thus many persons suffer during their whole life
from serious neuroses, but more of them even "only" from having
"stumbled"
- by hazardous coincidence or by whoever's malice - during their
carrying out of one or another of these crucial phases: unfortunately
then
not all - in fact rather few - grown-ups have enjoyed a good and
complete
thriving, and so are ready to join a trueRIPENESS. (<Ripeness
is all>: KING
LEAR
ACT V.
Scene II. A field between the two camps).
Thus not
all - in fact
rather few - grown-ups have gone
through their thriving in such a regular and full way, and then not all
people
- at whatever age - can enlighten their minds and feelings with
a benevolent WISDOMaroused
from a
recognized, cared and well organized experiences. See again
this
subject, better explained, in Consciousness
and memoryand also the quotations
regardingresilience. And try to look after both files Un
brutto sogno:una
bambina e un'incubatrice, esperienza dalla nascita and Documento
originale del sogno-
unfortunately only Italian
files,
chapter of the Italian book-
apt to impress at
least by its genuine drawings how a nightmare was to have experiencedincubator.
Don't forget the main warning regarding
children
at risk ofdomestic
accidents
Children
of
YESTERDAY
= today's adults. Today's
adults -> adults of TOMORROW
how can
many people -
luckily not ALL
- who are unaware
of the pathways
of
thriving, who are at present still
suffering and at present
still
bitter about their hindrances in childhood, how can they not
transmit
their own troubles into the generations' chain?
How to get around this? What to do?
Luckily it is possible to regenerate even the
most ill-fated ones, to treat their distresses as curable
diseases, and hopefully not to drag the new generations into
their sadness: we must praise them and give them every help they need,
even if "only" something reassuring to read, something which could
arouse
in an encouraging way their repressed memories even of the most
wicked
traumas, wrongs and injustices: but in a way which could make
admissible
and restore a meaningful awareness of previously distort feelings,
emotions,
behaviors, even beliefs either present, past and for times to come.
Summarizing: these books are dedicated to THEM.
Not only during personal childhood does
everyone
go through CRISIS of DEVELOPMENT:
every age is an adventure, every age follows the former one, with new
balances
which open new horizons, which upsets the preceding
balances.
A life is enriching and not close and barren when full of many
experiences
and CHANGES.
However every human life - no
matter
how long it could be -cannot
reacha
full integration with every side
of reality. Even if every development could continue till the infinite,
towards an infinite series of knowledge attainment (moreover giving
raise
to further transformations and crisis), all these human lives, however
different from each other, are plunged into a historical and social
environment. And moreover as well as personal lives also the
SOCIOLOGICAL
phaenomena
have a particular evolution, no matter how different they are in every
community: another further very impelling need to reach a
mightier
ripeness: the utter support to preserve against to be overwhelmed by
every incoming awkwardness.
For the Italian
edition
still availablePer
una crescita libera:
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00390116502900
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again a recollection of Author's books regarding family life and
children development:
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