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In the final paragraph of The Violence of Emotions, the author, Civitarese, writes (p. 190):
On the stage of the therapy invented by Freud, the analyst's reverie (the images that take him by surprise) and the narrative derivatives of waking dream thought contained in what the patient says, but also in what he himself says, become the access roads to the unconscious communication that takes place between two minds, to the wax tablet which, as should be clear by now, is only a fragment of a much larger writing pad and which corresponds to sociality, culture, the Other.
Civitarese's raison d'être for writing this impressive book is to show us, in line with post-structural, post-modernist thought, that reality and for sure analytic reality is not an independent, self-contained state or object. Reality, from ordinary human relations to abstract theories and beliefs, is determined by the interrelations of the various elements of ‘culture’.
On the one hand Civitarese, in writing this book, gives us a portal through which we can see his own original way of thinking about mental life and psychic development, and on the other, he encourages his reader to self reflect, and to also become the author of the text, in line with post-modernist thought.