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A comparison with others, with boundaries, is necessary to develop a symbolic function. The representation of reality must be periodically deconstructed and reconstructed with new materials to remain subjectively significant. A clinical case is presented to exemplify how complex the journey towards adulthood can be, a journey towards the unknown, with an outcome not obvious, that can evoke even intense anguish. The crisis of adolescence can bring out pre-existing structural fragilities and ambiguities, touching the delicate balance of the person, inevitably poised between an internal and an external world, and who does not always find comfort when trying to be reflected in the figures of reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The question of authority and its transformations in the context of changing societies and cultures is at the center of a cultural and ecclesial debate that is linked to other key issues, such as liberty, identity, social relations, politics and governance, education, religion, and consecrated life itself. The crisis of democracy has prompted the necessity of reflecting on these transformations, which have also impacted consecrated life, in order to initiate new formative strategies to promote growth paths in autonomy, which is the basis of liberty and all forms of participation. In this essay, starting from the crisis of authority that has affected both civil and religious institutions, we consider how the authoritative responsibility of those who are called in the service of guiding and imparting vision to communities will need to be delineated, and how to qualify their training toward a generative leadership style that is able to address the challenges of complexity and change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attraverso l'analisi di un contenzioso che vede per protagonisti una donna, Umbellina, e la sua famiglia, il presente articolo mostra la condizione giuridica femminile nello Stato Pontificio di metà Ottocento per quanto concerne la dote. La donna dello Stato Pontificio è in posizione giuridicamente ed economicamente subalterna e, alla morte del padre, ha diritto esclusivamente a una dote "congrua" sull'asse ereditario, in caso non sia ancora sposata; se già sposata e dotata, invece, non le spettano ulteriori beni mobili o immobili. Tuttavia, le donne dell'Ottocento, come dimostra il caso descritto nel presente lavoro, non sembrano più accettare passivamente come in passato la loro condizione e non esitano a far valere con forza i loro diritti, sfidando non solo la famiglia ma la società stessa, che ha ancora in sé le peculiarità dell'Ancien Régime, è ancora statica, basata sull'immobilismo, su un sistema gerarchico e sull'obbedienza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a phenomenology of masculinity, leading into questions of authority and ideology. Phenomenology draws on one's experience, which includes here the author's experience of being drawn to thinkers in the phenomenological and (psycho)analytical traditions, such as Levinas, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan. Recognition is regarded as the key to becoming what we are, in a complex 'thrownness' which we cannot escape. It appears that coming to know one's masculinity (and femininity) is part of this becoming; some things do not change, expressing the inert quality (Hegelian bone-like) and repetitiveness of ideology. Recognition is dependent on who has the authority to recognise the other, and this is explored in terms of the therapist's authority. The importance of openness to the other person, and oneself as a therapist, is seen as crucial in allowing a space for a discovery of embodied meanings. But a longstanding dominant ideology of scientism has led to alienation from such embodiment, and one reaction to this may be an appeal to a kind of authoritarian certainty in politics. Ultimately, we only have ourselves in what appears to be an urgent struggle for free speech in therapies, and in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The synodal journey can take on a profound pedagogical and educational value if we recognize the opportunity for the participation of the People of God in discerning the life and mission of the Church, especially in ecclesial communities. If nourished by authentic dialogue, and not by «soliloquies» or «interior monologues», participation can foster reciprocal relationships that allow believers to live the synodal experience as an opportunity for formation, growth, personal and Christian maturation oriented towards communion and the mission. The ecclesial community would thus become the place where the educative auctoritas of the pastors would allow to nurture relationships and orient a community style ad intra and ad extra in which the «voice» of believers, their «gifts» and their «charisms» are the conditions for germinating an ecclesiological experience of communion attentive to the times and needs of humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Riflettendo sul servizio come modo di vivere il potere, è necessario ritornare alla Sacra Scrittura, specialmente al vangelo di Matteo che presenta Gesù come il Figlio dell’uomo a cui è dato ogni potere in cielo e in terra (cf. Mt 28, 16-20). Nella prima parte del nostro lavoro rifletteremo sul potere di Gesù di guarire, rivelato in modo particolare ed esplicito nelle opere del Messia (Mt 8 – 9). Il potere della vita che viene dalla croce è il tema della seconda parte, dedicata al cammino del Figlio dell’uomo verso la croce (Mt 20, 17-28). Il potere come responsabilità è il terzo aspetto fondamentale del potere di Gesù, mostrato nell’giudizio finale del Figlio dell’uomo (Mt 25, 31-46). Il potere del Figlio dell’uomo manifestato nel potere di insegnare, di perdonare i peccati, di guarire e di scacciare i demoni è il potere a servizio dell’uomo e della sua salvezza.

The present work studied the content and the structure of Social Representation (SR) of (dis)obedience. The aim of this study was understanding the relationship with the authority in a group of students of the Military Armed Forces. In order to achieve this aim, an online self-report questionnaire was used. The analyzes were conducted on a sample of 389 people, coming from the military academy. The results show how the concepts of (dis)obedience are considered diametrically opposed: obedience has a positive connotation, connected to terms such as "respect", "loyalty", "trust" and, on the other hand, disobedience has a mostly negative meaning, connected to terms such as "disrespectful", "negative" and "wrong". These results support the hypothesis that the specific context has a strong influence in determining Social Representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political modernity presents authority as antithetical to autonomy, linking the former to power, the latter to unruliness. This approach is refuted also referring to a philological analysis. It is believed that in a non-modern political perspective it is authoritativeness that allow autonomy to unfold, favoring a research that from time to time defines the rules of coexistence where right is not the command of the sovereign but the expression of social regularity based on loci. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Arnold D. Richards' (2016) article "The left and far left in American psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis as a subversive discipline" is discussed, and some aspects deemed to be more interesting are analyzed, namely the following: (1) the methodology based on sociology of science; (2) the questionable discussion on the consequences of the ideological change on the part of some Marxist psychoanalysts; (2) the constructive suggestion that, on the basis of the illusory idea that psychoanalysis is a subversive discipline, the psychoanalysts' subversive passion should be revitalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This contribution aims to argue that universities are one of the privileged places in which the Church can put into practice proclaiming salvation by contrasting itself with the present reality, its interpretations and narratives. From this contrast a greater ability emerges for proclamation in and with society, in ways that respond to an extremely fragmented social and cultural context, in which the value of authority has been lost, and with it the heritage of tradition. In this way the pastoral university environment becomes a laboratory for educational alliances and a paradigm for pastoral care that can awaken in the generations an awareness of Christianity in view of its eschatological fulfillment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on Austin’s speech act theory, many influential scholars view hate speech in terms of speech acts, namely acts of subordination (MacKinnon 1987; Langton 1993, 2012, 2014; Hornsby and Langton 1998; McGowan 2003, 2004; Kukla and Lance 2009; Langton, Haslanger and Anderson 2012; Maitra 2012; Kukla 2014). Austin’s distinction between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts offers a way to set apart speech that constitutes subordination, and speech that merely causes subordination. The aim of my paper is to address the main objection to accounts of hate speech in terms of illocutionary speech acts, that is the Authority Problem. In particular I will claim that what is missing from previous proposals is attention to the broader social context in which ordinary instances of hate speech are embedded, and in particular, attention to the social status of both the speaker and the audience. While the social position of the speaker has been examined by several approaches, the social position of the audience has too often been neglected. I will show that not only must the speaker have a certain kind of standing or social position in order to perform speech acts of subordination, but also the audience must have a certain kind of standing or social position in order to either license or object to the speaker’s authority, and her acts of subordination.

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The field of research on school leadership is not really developed in France. Professional literature dominates over research papers and the concept of management is not very popular among educators and academics. It is considered as connoted to business and to the market and opposed to the values of public services. French principals view themselves as «administrators» or «representatives of the State» and they are very concerned to apply national legislation and ministry’s directives. Even if this notion is implicitly present within official instructions that define principals as «pedagogical and educative pilots» of schools, these executives lack real legitimacy to act on the teaching and learning issues which remain in the hands of State inspectors. So, leadership is recognized not as an official function, but rather through an implicit and blurred sense of professionalism expressed sometimes by professionals as «personal charisma», «sense of dialogue», «proximity». «Authority» and «responsibility» are the main social representations allowing principals to define their «missions» as public servants.

This article studies some of the problematic aspects inherent in the relationship between "authority" and the individual or person especially with regard to the dynamics of obedience by the latter towards the commands given by the former in the form of laws and norms. The author focuses on the goal of the human being within the political community, confronting the paradigm of the common good with the ultimate good as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of authority and the ways it is exercised constitutes, without doubt, one of the most complex of issues, implicating as it does both contemporary ecclesialogical thought and ecclesial action. To ask about practices in the exercise of authority in a Church of subjects, is to make us aware of the pluriformality of these expressions, which is not reducible to the variety of expressions found among ordained ministers. This study looks therefore at authority as it might be practiced among the christifideles laici, at the possibility of such authority and the conditions for its acceptance at the ecclesial level, as well as its practicability. In a sinodal Church, the issue is crucial for discussions regarding the creation of an effective noi ecclesiale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stať pojednáva o manipulaci a s ní spojené lidské agresivite na pozadí Milgramových experimentů s poslušností vůči autorite. Snaží se ukázat, kam až je človek schopen ve své agresivite zajít, pokud k tomu dostane od autority příkaz. Ptá se, co je základem ochoty poslouchat, analyzuje podmínky, za jakých se mění míra poslušnosti. Usiluje o porozumění faktorům, které přesvědčí jedince, aby se vzdal své nezávislosti a stal se dobrovolným zástupcem systému. Článek se dotýká obecných otázek kázně a zdůrazňuje porozumění kontextu, ve kterém se kázeň uplatňuje.

Feminist thought is a constitutive part of political thought and its history. It is both a method of inquiry, a voice and a stance on the world, a claim of women’s political centrality, and a paradoxical critique of modern political and philosophical thought. As unexpected objection, feminist discourse constantly stretches the borders of the political canon and produces critical political theory, imposing the redefinition of the categories used to interpret the present and the past. Going through six centuries of history, from the reappropriation of tradition in XV century to the tension with neoliberalism in XX century, protofeminist and feminist discourse constitutes in time a constant interruption of the monologue of Western patriarchal civilization, showing its centrality in the production, crisis and redefinition of political and social order. Thus, feminist discourse is an essential source of the history of political thought.

Il saggio discute le ripercussioni della teoria della Bildung nellapedagogia cattolica italiana. Le figure esemplari di riferimento recepite in Italia sono Förster e Hessen, teorico del personalismo il primo, maestro del neoumanesimo il secondo. Viene poi esaminato il dialogo tra la pedagogia cattolica e la pedagogia della Bildung negli anni cinquanta ed in seguito vengono discusse quattro figure-chiave della pedagogia cattolica italiana (Laeng, Flores, Manno, Ducci) e le loro posizioni postmoderne. Nell’ultima parte del lavoro, infine, sono messi in rilievo alcuni nodi fondamentali dei modelli pedagogici piùrecenti.