La conversione: cambiamento catastrofico o nuova apertura?

Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Tonia Cancrini
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/70 Language Italian
Pages 5 P. 88-92 File size 53 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2021-070007
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Conversion can be either «a violent birth», as it was for Paul on the road to Da-mascus, or a turning point, a significant change that arises from a deep crisis where con¬fu-sion and uncertainty (Paul’s three days of blindness) lead to a new opening that involves a pro¬found change in one’s life. Change is feared because in a moment of crisis we don’t know what could happen: on the one hand we fear catastrophe (Bion’s catastrophic chan¬ge), but on the other it can also be an opening to a new perspective and a new possibility. In the moment of crisis uncertainty prevails: who or what will prevail within us: a positive and constructive turn or darkness, obscurity and destructiveness. In my work and in life I will see the encounter with these moments of crisis and change.

Keywords: change, crisis

Tonia Cancrini, La conversione: cambiamento catastrofico o nuova apertura? in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 70/2021, pp 88-92, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2021-070007