Roberto Mancini, author of the article, is a teacher of theoretical philosophy at the University of Macerata. His manuscript, presented in a conference organized by the Ruolo Terapeutico of Trento in 2014, contains a thesis of wide philosophical pertinence touching themes of desire, need, acceptance, compassion. The author, in the last part of his article, enters into the merits of the affinities between the above themes and the therapeutic role practiced by those who offer helping relationships.
Keywords: Psychoanalysis and philosophy, acceptance, desire, need, therapeutic role