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Background and Objective: Gestalt Therapy (GT) is a humanistic and experiential approach that places a strong emphasis on awareness, present-moment experience, and the integration of disconnected parts of the self. Gestalt Therapy is particularly suited for exploring and understanding the complex dynamics of emotional experiences and human interactions. Within the context of psychotherapy, sexuality is a vital and intricate aspect of human experience and well-being. Therefore, there is a need to explore and evaluate the scientific literature regarding Gestalt Therapy interventions specifically addressing issues related to sexuality over the past decade. Methods: A comprehensive research strategy was developed to identify relevant scientific articles from four databases: ScienceDirect, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar. The search strategy used a combination of keywords related to Gestalt Therapy, sexuality, interventions, and the specified time period. The study follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines to ensure transparency, replicability, and methodological rigor. Two independent reviewers conducted the search, article selection, and data extraction. English-language papers published between 2013 and 2023 in peer-reviewed journals concerning work on sexuality in Gestalt Therapy were included. Scientific papers concerning sexuality and organic pathologies, other literature reviews, book chapters, books and essays were excluded. Results: The initial search yielded a total of 39 articles. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 6 articles were selected for full review. Data extraction involved categorizing the included articles according to study characteristics, participant demographics, intervention descriptions, and reported outcomes. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify common themes, emerging patterns, and research gaps. Conclusions: This scoping review provides an overview of the scientific literature on Gestalt Therapy interventions related to sexuality published between 2013 and 2023. The results can contribute to the existing evidence base, enhance understanding of the effectiveness and applicability of Gestalt Therapy in working with sexuality, and help identify areas requiring further research.

This paper examines the relationship between fairy tales, sexuality, and national identity in socialist Slovenia. Theoretically, it builds on the canonical work by Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment. The main objective of the analysis is to interrogate the Freudian sexual script in relation to Slovene national identity formation. For this purpose, I study two fairy tales from the socialist period, France Bevk's Peter Klepec and Moj dežnik je lahko balon by Ela Peroci. The concepts of family romance and infantile citizenship are applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approval of divorce law in 1970 and the subsequent referendum of 1974 represent one of the crucial points in the history of the customs evolution in Italy. The divorce debate in Italy follows the relative discussion in Parliament, registering its significant peaks in the mid-sixties and mid-seventies. A few years earlier, in 1961, the comedy by Pietro Germi Divorce Italian Style had been released in Italian cinemas. It was centered on a double anachronism: the absence of divorce in Italy and the existence of the honour killing. The film is a blockbuster of the year and represents a central work in the whole genre of Italian comedy, which photographs the Italy during the economic miracle and its changes. By clearing a taboo, Divorce Italian Style triggers a lively debate in the popular press, in particular provoking the reaction of the most traditionalist sectors of society and the Catholic world, worried about the questioning of the bond of marriage. In this sense, Divorce Italian Style activates a reflection in the public opinion on the issue of divorce which anticipates what would have happened a few years later.

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In questo contributo saranno passati in rassegna alcuni enigmi della tradizione letteraria greca che coinvolgono, in varia misura, la sfera della sessualità. Sarà tracciata una distinzione tra indovinelli che chiedono di essere effettivamente risolti e indovinelli che svelano la soluzione contestualmente alla loro enunciazione. In tale contesto, saranno posti in rilievo i punti di contatto tra le esigenze della scena comica e alcuni epigrammi erotici e scoptici che mutuano la forma grifotica senza proporre davvero la soluzione di un enigma, a ulteriore testimonianza della tendenza del genere epigrammatico a incorporare elementi desunti dalla commedia. Il riconoscimento di alcune analogie formali tra gli esempi analizzati indurrà ad accostare alla tradizione del γρῖφοςun testo poco noto, adesp. AP11.272, che della formulazione enigmatica si serve per stigmatizzare i cinedi, in linea con la tendenza, ben documentata in letteratura greco-latina, a definire l’omosessualità attraverso la negazione e la contraddizione logica. Saranno infine espresse alcune considerazioni di ordine generale sul rapporto tra enigma ed epigramma e sui criteri scelti dagli antologizzatori per operare una distinzione tra i due generi. The aim of this paper is to analyse some ancient Greek riddles variously involving the sexual sphere. A distinction between riddles that actually require to be solved and others that reveal their solution while being posed will be drawn. In such a context, attention will be paid to the points of contacts between comedy and some erotic and scoptic epigrams in the form of a riddle, in order to contribute to a better appreciation of the tendency of the epigrammatic genre to incorporate comic elements. The identification of formal analogies among the examples taken into account will also allow to analyse under the light of the riddling tradition an anonymous scoptic epigram, AP11.272, whose targets are passive homosexuals. The paper will be concluded by some observations on the relationship between riddle and epigram, and on the criteria adopted by anthologists in order to distinguish them.

Nei primi decenni del secolo scorso, in Ghana, i casi e le accuse di stregoneria aumentarono in modo sensibile e divennero una questione quasi esclusivamente femminile. Ciò fu accompagnato dal diffondersi di alcuni culti ritenuti in grado di identificare i colpevoli e quindi curarli. Le donne adottarono strategie differenti nei confronti delle accuse rivolte nei loro confronti; alcune si ribellarono apertamente mentre altre fecero proprio lo sguardo esterno, dei familiari e della comunità, e confessarono, non senza drammatiche contraddizioni, di essere delle streghe e di avere compiuto delitti efferati. Attraverso l’analisi delle fonti di archivio, (trascrizioni di processi e resoconti delle indagini degli amministratori coloniali) e di alcune fonti secondarie, quali le trascrizioni delle confessione, raccolte dall’antropologa coloniale M. Field, si vuole qui discutere il significato della pratica della confessione come strumento per cercare di normalizzare i comportamenti e la sessualità femminili che in quegli anni apparivano sempre più eccentrici.

Feminist sex wars refers to a debate among the feminist world regarding the way in which some sexual practices can contribute to women’s emancipation. Questions such as prostitution and pornography are still active in the contemporary debate, that divides the feminists into two sides: the abolitionists, the antipornography feminists and, at the other side, the “pro-sex” feminists. This essay wants to analyze the implications and the debates born around the 1980s, when the prostitutes began to organize themselves into movements in order to claim their liberty of choice and when the expression “sex work” was coined, which refers to the sexual industry without the prejudice and the typical negative connotation.

Stefano Benni è un autore italiano sicuramente molto letto, ma non sempre apprezzato. Duplici, infatti, sono le reazioni davanti alle sue opere, sia da parte dei lettori che da parte dei critici. I primi risultano sempre o molto affezionati alla scrittura dell’autore, o molto infastiditi da essa. I secondi, al contrario, tendono a respingere Benni in toto, non reputandolo annoverabile tra i canoni della critica accademica. La ragione dei pareri negativi sulle opere dell’autore è da ricercare nei temi trattati e, in particolar modo, in uno di essi: la sessualità. Malgrado Benni faccia un uso costante e a piene mani dello strumento dell’ironia (attraverso diversi meccanismi spesso legati al campo retorico dell’adiectio e alla presentazione di immagini irrealistiche sino all’assurdo) anche nell’ambito di tale tematica, essa risulta trattata in modo assai esplicito (figurativamente e linguisticamente) e senza alcun tabù. Questo disturba spesso i lettori, che percepiscono come immotivata tale scelta autoriale, e i critici, che vedono questo atteggiamento come sintomatico di un allontanamento dai canoni tradizionali. In tale sede, tuttavia, si è scelto di prendere una direzione opposta. La presenza della sessualità nelle opere di Benni, infatti, pare essere il fulcro di una particolare modalità della narrazione, che vede tale tematica come l’elemento essenziale che influenza l’agire dei personaggi e l’atto del narrare stesso. Ma non solo: l’istintualità diventa quindi, da una parte, lo stesso motore narrativo delle vicende e, dall’altra, un utile strumento con cui l’autore veicola ulteriori tematiche a lui care e dà libero sfogo al suo personale uso del linguaggio. A partire da tali riflessioni e da un’indagine stilistica dei passi più significativi dei romanzi dell’autore, è possibile giungere a un’ipotesi costitutiva dell’intera antropologia benniana, che permetta di cogliere l’intento autoriale alla base della stessa stesura dei romanzi.Italian author Stefano Benni’s novels are certainly widely read, but not always appreciated. When it comes to judging them, both Benni’s audience and critics might express conflicting opinions and feelings. The former either happens to be very fond of his writing style or truly annoyed by it. The latter, on the other way, usually put him aside, because scholars do not reckon him to be included into the literary canon. The reason for these negative judgements is surely to be searched for in the themes Benni focuses on, one of which might be particularly controversial: sexuality. Despite Benni making constantly use of irony (which is mediated by different devices usually related either to the rhetorical field of adiectio or to descriptions pushed to the limit of the absurd) and sexuality is no exception, it ends up being described with no restraints (both figuratively and linguistically). This often annoys the readers, who perceive it as unmotivated choice by the author, and critics as well consider this behavior a symptomatic departure from traditional canons. Nevertheless, in this essay I deliberately chose to take a different direction. The recurrence of sexuality in Benni’s novels, in fact, seems to be the pivot of a peculiar narrative style, that considers this theme as the essential element that influences the acting of the characters and the act of narration itself. Not just that, instinct on the one hand becomes the narrative engine of the different plots, and on the other is a useful tool with which the author conveys further themes he is particularly fond of. Moreover, he exploits this subject to give voice to his personal use of the language. Starting from these premises, and from a stylistic inquiry of Benni’s most meaningful novel extracts, it is possible to come to a structural hypothesis about the author’s anthropological vision. This allows grasping the purpose which is at the core of all his novel writing.

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La letteratura erotica non è mai stata oggetto di studi seri, spesso rigettata per la sua immoralità e considerata come sottogenere. Da L'amante di Lady Chatterley di David Herbert Lawrence (1928) a il Lamento di Portnoy di Philip Roth (1968) sono tutte opere messe al bando e censurate per oscenità. Alberto Moravia è considerato uno dei più importanti romanzieri del XX secolo, che ha esplorato nelle sue opere i temi della sessualità moderna. Le sue opere a carattere erotico, in cui predominano la sensualità e il voyurismo, sono le più sorprendenti e audaci. Prenderemo in esame il romanzo breve di Alberto Moravia Agostino composto dall’autore nel 1941 ma pubblicato solo nel 1944, precedentemente ostacolato dalla censura fascista. Se Agostino può essere considerato un romanzo di formazione che racconta il passaggio dall’età infantile alla fase adolescenziale, attraverso la scoperta della sessualità come rito d’iniziazione, quale idea sul sesso lo scrittore ha voluto vincolare ? Ci proponiamo, dunque, di indagare i motivi dietro la scelta di trattare un argomento considerato come tabu’ in una società mediterranea con costumi e tradizione rigidi. Tenteremo inoltre di studiare il contributo dell’opera moraviana nella realizzazione di una sorta di Liberazione sessuale nella società del tempo.

The polarization masculine/feminine which, in the 1980s, shaped the representation of sexuality and the body in the discourse of fashion - both in the delimitation of market segments ("Pour homme"/ "Pour femme") and in the semantic positioning of the terms of the category of sexuality - dropped in the 1990s, under the impulse of new proposals that appealed to a new conceptualization of a more inclusive sexuality (in line with the newborn Queer Theory). The advertising campaign for the fragrance Calvin Klein One exemplifies this process; it is hereby analyzed with the aim to provide a paradigmatic example of such a shift in perspective, concerning the themes of sexuality and body representation. The analysis considers several aspects of the campaign and makes a diachronic comparison with other previous advertising campaigns from the same fashion house; thus, the innovation and shift from a separatist and stereotyping paradigm to a more inclusive and neutralizing one are even more highlighted.

This paper explores the question why the well-known intellectual and patriot Rigas Ferraios had used in his monumental Carta the image of Hercules fighting an Amazon. What were the sexual connotations of this representation in a map intended to represent the space of the nation? The central idea is that the representations of masculinity and nationality were tightly interconnected, and through this interconnection both were redefined.

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Writing as reparation is a common defense strategy and emotion processing that belongs primarily to the private experience of the subjet, when he lives delicate and crucial moments of his life: in this case we can speak of a “Ego’s private writing” , which is typical of the diary and other modest autobiographical expressions. But the drive to repair is a constant mode, which can be found also in great literary models (Rousseau, Svevo, Proust, Kafka ...). The pleasure that the act of writing seems to bear in itself is an important and recurring element, that characterizes both these levels of writing, also in situations of pain and anguish. In my speech I will speak of this pleasure and its links with the dimension of sexuality – a “polymorphous perverse” sexuality, that not by chance characterizes essential but different seasons of our lives, such as adolescence and senility.

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