AT THE ORIGINS OF DESTRUCTIVENESS - Paperback

**Preface by Luciana La Stella** Where does the impulse come from that drives us to destroy what binds us, what loves us, what constitutes us? In this lucid and dizzying book, the author leads the reader into the dark folds of the psyche and knowledge, in search of the invisible root of destructiveness—not as a pathological accident, but as a tragic and original trait of the human. With a clear, dense, and poetic style that holds together thought and narrative, theory and image, *At the Origins of Destructiveness* moves between philosophy and psychoanalysis, traversing Greek myth, the clinic of the unconscious, the metaphysics of power, and the wounds of contemporaneity. Freud, Lacan, Spinoza, Bergson, Severino, and others become dialoguing voices of a tragic and current chorus, called to question violence, desire, guilt, and anguish. Each chapter is a threshold. Each word is a passage. The author writes as one who seeks, as one who listens, as one who has touched something real and tells of its consistency. With rigor and lightness, he invites the reader on a journey that is both analysis and vision, meditation and immersion. A work for those who do not fear radical questions, for those who believe that psychoanalysis is not just a cure, but also a perspective on the world. For those who want to understand the wounds of the human in the time of technology, disenchantment, and chaos. A book that does not console, but awakens. Does not explain, but questions. Does not close, but opens. *number of pages: 480* Author: [Giuseppe Salzillo](https://www.nepedizioni.com/giuseppe-salzillo/)