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The present contribution - starting from the experience of the EATGA Workshop 2011 that took place in Palermo and that had as its theme “Intersubjective bonds in the globalized economy” - invites to reflect on the quality of the life of relationship and intersubjective connectedness in social contemporary world. One of the characterizing cultural phenomena influencing contemporary reality is made up by the dominant and pervasive presence of logic and language of financial markets in policies and activities that organize and articulate daily life. Theoretical hypothesis driving our research is that the structures of subjectivity, the meaning and the way of being in a relationship are characteristics (cultural themes) that emerge within a defined cultural and historical system. In such a theoretical perspective, cultural themes are incorporated or interiorized by men belonging a shared cultural system and so became elements of the shared subjectivity and of the meanings given to intersubjective exchanges and bonds. From the workshop experience some meanings emerge concerning the role of economical-financial system in promoting codes and symbols that define the shape and the sense of relationship. The cultural codes of the market have gone out from the economic circle in which they were born and they are offered as organizers of affections and relationships. This is an evidence for the critical actual historical moment, in which the values and the cultural codes organized on the trust, on the reciprocity, on the common share and participation seems to be interdicted.Keywords: Transcultural Group-Analysis, Intersubjective Relationships, Cultural Models of the Exchange

The misunderstanding between culture and emotions The aim of this article is the study of the cultural misunderstanding in care relationships, beginning from the analysis of the misunderstanding effects on physician-immigrant patient relations, for example the therapy interruption, the incomprehensibility of symptoms. The western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through increasingly precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes the human and cultural aspects from care relationships. This exclusion produces distance, which is increased by both the absence of a cultural homogeneity and the presence of different languages and different body, health and illness concepts between physician and patient. Through the presentation of some clinical examples, this contribution shows how the specialized competence, although is effective in many afflictive situations, elicits grey areas of incomprehensibility, misunderstanding and misconception that, if not recognized, organize care relationships, which are ineffective in their transformative value. The reading of the misunderstanding phenomenon in the health field delimits the observation view to the illness, the care, the relationship between physician and patient, but the identification and the understanding of the misunderstanding is possible also directing the attention both to the organizational and institutional environment in which the misunderstanding develops and to the subjects cultural models.

The present contribution intends to introduce to a reflection on the relationship between culture and personality, on the historicity of the contents that structure all the different levels of subjectivity (individual, interpersonal and transpersonal) beginning from the experience of the EATGA Workshop 2011 that took place in Palermo and that hads as its theme “Intersubjective bonds in the globalized economy”. Following studies and research on the role of the cultural phenomena in the formation of the psyche, in the life of relationship and in the work of transcultural analysis, the EATGA Workshop 2011 have introduced important elements of discontinuity. The theme, that structures the experience of the Workshop, originates from the evidence and from the awareness that in the actual world what people are or have become, their way of beying-in-relationship, is strongly determined by the cultural globalized and pervasive device, which is used since 30 years and determined by the economic-financial system. The economic-financial system, in fact, through the institutions and the organizations of work, informs the life of relationship, including family, and has redefined the meaning and the pregnancy of the bonds penetrating in the most intimate structure of the personality. The cultural logic of the macro economy influence and structure the interpersonal world, this influence is reflected in mild and instrumental forms of relationship and ties. The possible relationship is that of the transitoriness and instantaneousness, of the accumulation, of the effectiveness of the production. The proposed theme forces to the exploration of actual cultural phenomena, rather than events placed in the history and sedimented in the individual and collective memory. The object of work and research of the workshop becomes the analysis of the different cultural exchange models play out in the encounter with the other (the gift culture/ bond vs the exchange culture/ market). The exploration of the actual cultural phenomena requires an uncomfortable, but profitable in its continuous questioning, exercise to plan and put into practice methods of conduction and interpretation of group processes to be able to start a reflection on the historical and social dimensions that organize and structure the intersubjective relationships, and also on the shape and the quality of ties and the emerging identities in the contemporary world.

Viene analizzato il vissuto del migrante proveniente da altri luoghi e altre culture nell'impatto con la società occidentale. In particolare si analizzano gli aspetti legati all'integrazione, i conflitti esistenti tra il mondo originario e il luogo di accoglienza e la condizione che lascia il migrante sospeso tra il paese che lo accoglie e quanto di reale, simbolico o mitico egli porta con sé