THINKING THE PRESENT - Paperback

**The Time of Implicit Psychosis. Untimely Writings on Contemporary Subjectivity** “*Being contemporary means perceiving the darkness of one's time without being blinded by its lights*.” We live in a time where everything seems visible, connected, immediate. Yet, something escapes. There is a darkness at the heart of our era that cannot be illuminated by the lights of technology or the certainties of science. This book arises from a need: to try to look at that darkness without turning away. The volume collects articles written between 1995 and 2021, born from the clinical experience and theoretical reflection of a psychiatrist who has always intertwined fieldwork with the most radical question: what is happening to us today? Marco Riva traverses decades of clinical practice, psychoanalytic reflection, and critical observation of society to investigate a central theme: the transformation of the psyche in the age of media, virtuality, and performance. Beyond diagnostic labels, the author explores emerging and seemingly invisible phenomena: the false self as a widespread device in social normality, implicit psychosis as a constitutive structure of the subject, the delusion of reality as an illusion of absolute truth. In a world dominated by preformed images, affective algorithms, and compulsive *likes*, the clinic confronts a new type of suffering: functional, performing, but hollowed out. With a writing style that intertwines phenomenological thought, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural anthropology, this is an "untimely" work that does not seek solutions but raises questions. It is an invitation to inhabit the gap, to look at the present with a double gaze – objective and subjective – and to recognize, even in the use of artificial intelligence, the signs of a profound transformation of our way of being human. Written with passion, clarity, and a critical but never dogmatic perspective, the book is an invitation to pause, to question the present, to rediscover the importance of waiting, doubt, and deep listening. With an *Appendix* by Andrea Tringali. “*To truly understand the present, one must learn not to fear its darkness… Only those who dare to inhabit the shadow can hear the whisper of time.*” **Number of pages: 214** Authors: [MARCO RIVA](https://www.nepedizioni.com/marco-riva/)