Articles for DWF
Reviews for DWF
Articles for DWF
(introduced by BOCCIA Maria Luisa), From object of thought to thinking thought
Carla Lonzi's interlocution with psychoanalysis, 1997, n. 34-35, pp. 74-91
In this section of the journal, a feminist scholar of some standing [Boccia] introduces a younger scholar. In this article - the introduction of a thesis - Rita Corsi tries to show how Carla Lonzi's position towards the theory and practice of psychoanalysis isn't just a mere refusal: her critique to the central concepts of psychoanalysis moves from "another level", that of a female subjectivity that has complete self-awareness and isn't afraid to measure up against a thought that, when looked at with lucidity, is recognisable as sexed. It is from a preliminary affirmation of non-involvement that it is possible to create the conditions for a dialogue.
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CORSI Rita - GIARDINI Federica - DE VITA Tonia, Introduction, 2001, n. 1,
pp. 4-7
Starting from a growing difficulty in the relationships between "women who came before" and the younger ones, the editors introduce this somehow peculiar issue. The problem at stake is not a generational one, but rather the possibility of producing new political forms.
The crisis in these relationships is not a personal matter, but a more general one, concerning the changes in reality, in politics, and also a kind of resistance of the women that enacted the feminist event in the Seventies to see that time is passing by.
How can one find a distance while preserving the admiration and the debt towards these women? In other words, how can younger feminists revolt against what they feel is no more powerful without enacting a matricide?
The way chosen is an experimental one: thirteen "women coming after" - after the great feminist season of the Sixties and Seventies - write a imaginary letter, not signed with the real name of the authors, to a young friend about the relationship with an older woman, about the problems and their possible solutions.
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CORSI Rita - FRAIRE Manuela, A pleasure at risk, 2001, n. 2-3, pp. 22-30
The dialogue focuses on the issue of authority in relationships between women of different generations. According to Fraire the concept of authority is not linked to the mother-daughter model; she also remarks upon a sort of desexualisation of the woman acknowledged as her teacher by a younger woman, who at the same time enters in a relationship of obedience towards her symbolic authority.
Corsi, on the contrary, argues that on the part of younger women there is imitation rather than obedience of the older women one acknowledges as one's teachers, and thus a lack of new ideas and words.
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A soul on sale. Drug addiction and the search for meaning, 2002, n. 1-2,
pp. 5-19
The author reflects upon and puts to work her awareness of sexual difference in a project which envisaged the organisation of a course of philosophy in a public structure aimed at helping drug- addicts (in this case alcoholics) in Tuscany.
Examining the stages and changes undergone by the project and analysing her relation with the patients, Corsi highlights some relevant differences between the ways in which experience dependency, also questioning her own presuppositions and convictions.
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Infinite future and infinite present, 2003, n. 4, pp. 26-34
Referring to Simone Weil's idea of the relationship with time as one of the main concerns of the human being, the author thinks over the peculiarities about this relationship in the contemporary age.
Several aspects of our society (the diffusion and the assumption of drugs, but even the obsession regarding the prevention of illness, unexpected events, terrorist attacks and so on) show our difficulty in finding in the present time the opportunity to satisfy the human need of infinity that Simon Weil defines part of the human nature.
Consequently the only idea of infinity we can imagine is the one meaning an endless duration of time, forgetting that infinity is first of all a peculiar quality of being and therefore a dimension of the present where we live.
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Reviews for DWF
MURARO Luisa, La folla nel cuore, Milano, Pratiche editrice, 2000
rev. by Rita Corsi, 2000, n. 47, pp. 112-115
DE VECCHI Francesca (edited by), Filosofia Ritratti Corrispondenze. Hannah
Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein, Maria Zambrano, Tre Lune Edizioni, 2001
rev. by Rita Corsi, 2002, n. 1-2, pp. 112-115