Love as Care: A Two-Day Event on Therapeutic Love and Relationships

Caring for the other - for others - means creating a light but strong fabric of relationships capable of keeping life alive. There is no better tool for doing this than deploying love. Even in a therapeutic context, because it is from love that life is born, and with it, it is consolidated and maintained. This idea is behind the two-day event 'Love as Care' to be held on April 12 and 13 at Palazzo Serra di Cassano (via Monte di Dio 14), starting on Friday at 4:30 PM with a guided tour in a place highly symbolic of care and hospitality for the weakest and the abandoned like the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata. 'Love as Care' is organized by the Antheia association (Analytical Psychology and Human Sciences) which promotes the seventh edition of meetings on Psychoanalysis, Art, Philosophy, and Anthropology, in collaboration with CIPA (Italian Center of Analytical Psychology Southern Institute). After the guided tour on the afternoon of Friday, April 12, to the Basilica of the Annunziata, the congress sessions will take place on Saturday, April 13, at 8:45 AM, at the Institute for Philosophical Studies of Naples. The opening, on behalf of Antheia, is entrusted to the analytical psychologist Marisa D'Arrigo, and on Saturday, there will be many important reports and interventions on the theme of love as a possibility of care in its articulated dimensions, including the acceptance and recognition of the other. Among the various reports, that of Father Antonio Loffredo, 'From the culture of care to the care of culture', Luigi Turinese, 'Love as an epistemological revolution', Augusto Nucciotti, 'Therapeutic love, the challenge: emotions in the drawer'. The psychologist-poet Cinzia Caputo will introduce the debate (with Giulia Pepe, Alda Marini, Franco La Rosa), on themes such as the search for harmony and tuning and love as care in the couple relationship.