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19 December 2023

The evolutionary heritage of vulnerability: comment on the article ‘Passion and tenderness as political forces’ by Jô Gondar

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I am happy to have come across the reflections of Jô Gondar, in this intense intervention on passion and tenderness as political forces, and I consider this an opportunity to be able to share the thoughts that the article evoked in me. Gondar’s reflection strikes me as powerful and elegant, in its ability first of all to remind us, by way of a prologue, of the holistic dimension, as we would call it today, of the human being or, in other words, the fact that long before and beyond any speculation or abstraction, the human being is a complex whole. [...]

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The evolutionary heritage of vulnerability: comment on the article ‘Passion and tenderness as political forces’ by Jô Gondar. (2023). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2023.805