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Vittorino Andreoli
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“In the end, even the psychiatrist lived in the asylum like the other lunatics. A strange life, perhaps paradoxical, perhaps absurd, but all in all true. When it had to be established that things were not right, the comparison was with the lives of healthy people. A normality that, if I had to define it, I could only describe as pathological, since for the inhabitants of the asylum it is the “outside” that is abnormal.”
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“I believe that the perception of being children of God, not in the sense of a statement of principle but of an experience that attests to their involvement, must be an extraordinary existential condition, capable of giving strength and removing many of the doubts and disappointments that the human condition activates and feeds.”
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Recorded in: Fierezza nel sacerdote, Avvenire, 11 June 2008
“In their own way, non-believers are frequent visitors to churches: they love them as intimate places, as special museums where they can admire art and music, but there they find themselves wondering about the miracle of that presence which, after two thousand years, still fills the whole earth and the lives of so many people.”
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Recorded in: Il sacerdote e i non credenti, Avvenire, 24 September 2008
“The non-believer is someone who feels the limits of their own existence, and who, while using reason and considering it the best way to solve many existential problems, and certainly as a scientific tool, wants to push it further to question the mystery.”
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Recorded in: Il sacerdote e i non credenti, Avvenire, 24 September 2008
“The priest seems to me to be the most appropriate person to talk about death: he knows that it is not a subject for despair.”
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Recorded in: Il sacerdote e la morte, Avvenire, 17 September 2008
“The old priest now knows that man errs, and that this often produces only temporary effects, so that what ultimately makes complete sense is precisely prayer.”
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Recorded in: Il sacerdote anziano, Avvenire, 30 July 2008
“I don't know if the present time has brought us great benefits, but it has certainly invented a lot of fears.”
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Recorded in: Le paure non vanno in vacanza, Corriere della Sera, 19 July 2009, p. 45
“The most beautiful dimension is that of the priest who has nothing, but who is an integral part of an active and attentive community, within a flock that loves him.”
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Recorded in: Conflitti interiori: essere senza avere, Avvenire, 9 July 2008
“The memory of images is stored within us, and it is to this that we attach our feelings.”
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Recorded in: Corriere della Sera, 2 June 2008
“Fear is a defense mechanism that allows us to be aware of danger and therefore to take action to avoid its consequences.”
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Recorded in: Le paure non vanno in vacanza, Corriere della Sera, 19 July 2009, p. 45
“Isn't choice already an expression of freedom, even if only a basic one?”
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Recorded in: Le nostre paure, Rizzoli, 2010
“I deeply believe that priests are figures of great importance for non-believers.”
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Recorded in: Il sacerdote e i non credenti, Avvenire, 24 September 2008
“Dracula is a psychiatric novel in the sense that it focuses on strange behavior. The word madness is frequently used.”
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“(About Abraham Van Helsing) He is a psychiatrist, although he has many other specialties: he is a surgeon but also practices hypnosis, which he does regularly with Mina. He was one of Dr. Seward's teachers. He deals with the occult sciences: a term that well expresses the attempt to heal the contradiction between positivism and mystery.”
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“A two-stage illness, disorder-disappearance of the disorder (normality), focuses attention because it is closest to demonic possession: when the demon possesses the body, the possessed person exhibits behaviors that disappear immediately when the demon leaves as a result of some therapy (exorcism). Dr. Seward's interest in Renfield probably stems from Kraeplin's discovery of manic-depressive illness in 1895: in the same patient, a phase of mania can be followed by a phase of depression in temporal sequence.”
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“Blood is life; without blood, one is exhausted, close to the end. After sucking blood, Dracula has strength and even becomes young. Without it, he cannot live among the dead. Even in the present day, there are countless references to this symbolism, which take on religious expressions: Christ transforms bread into the body and blood of the Lord and thus gives life to men. He transforms it into blood because the body cannot live without blood. Moreover, when he dies on the Cross, he gives all his blood, so much so that the evangelist notes: water flowed from his side. He had given everything.”
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“Sucking is the gesture of life, the way in which a newborn baby lives. It attaches itself to the breast and devours it. Life passes from the mother to the child, who sucks it in. It remains a gesture full of charm, and in adult erotic games, sucking plays an important role: once again, it is a symbol of vital force. Dracula has none of the oral aggression of those who eat; on the contrary, he never eats, he only sucks. And in this, he has remained at the gesture of newborn life, the primary movement par excellence: if the child did not know how to suck, it would die.”
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“The strength of this novel, however, lies in the great and ever-present theme of the struggle between Good and Evil. A titanic struggle that moves from the everyday scene to the tragedies of the classical period and throughout literature with a capital L. After all, Dracula is Evil, even if he has a charm that sometimes captivates, and the group of characters who eliminate him represent Good, not least because they act in the name of Good.”
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“Professor Van Helsing is the priest of Good who, given the times, does not wear the robes of a monk or priest, but the garb of science. And so he interprets well the period in which the action takes place: positivism. A priest, therefore, who uses reason, the power of science, but who does not forget the sacred, magical instruments.”
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“Interviewer:Exhibitionists Andreoli: Of course, this is the mask that hides masochism. And keep in mind that, generally speaking, exhibitionism is a sexuality disorder. Showing off one's organ, but not because it is powerful. To compensate for impotence.”
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“[Second symptom of Italy's mental illness] Ruthless individualism. And mind you, I mean this adjective. Because a certain amount of individualism is normal, one must have one's own identity to which one attaches esteem. But when it becomes ruthless...”
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“[The British] never talk. Instead, we talk even when we listen to music or read the newspaper.”
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“Interviewer: You can't joke about faith. Andreoli: Not faith in God, let's leave that aside. I'm talking about believing. Thinking that tomorrow, at eight in the morning, there will be a miracle. Then whether it's God, Saint Januarius, or anyone else, it doesn't matter. In short, to be clear, we live in a disaster, in a sewer, but we believe that tomorrow morning at eight there will be a miracle that will change our lives. We're waiting for Godot, who isn't there. But try explaining that to Italians.”
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“Interviewer: Hidden masochism, ruthless individualism, acting, belief in miracles. We're in a terrible state, Professor Andreoli. Andreoli: That's right. No psychiatrist can save this patient that is Italy. I can't even take away these symptoms, because without them you would feel dead.”
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“All it takes is a hundred people willing to die as suicide bombers, strapping explosives to themselves, to render ridiculous the system of certainty and the certainty of power on this earth, of the potentates of this world.”
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“Well, if I have been, and am, a good psychiatrist, if I have helped my crazy patients, it is because of my fragility, because of the fear of a madness that lurks within me, because of the fragility that I feel capable of splitting me in two, of taking away my will to live and making me like a depressed person who only wants to disappear in order to erase the pain that shapes him.”
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“The Song of Songs speaks of necessary love: being two makes it possible to exist for those who separately would not have made it, would have broken.”
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“Pain is a quality of being fragile.”
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“Pain is the primary source of fragility because it breaks you and you feel shattered, unable to put the pieces you see in yourself back together; indeed, you are a pile of fragments, grains of sand that should come together and shape, sculpt a man.”
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“Pain makes more noise than any other noise.”
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“The limit of energy becomes the limit of civilization, of a civilization that seems to be one of well-being and that at times appears to be a civilization of waste.”
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“Marriage is my life with her and our children, but none of us can say that it has been a forty-year trip out of town.”
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“Marriage is the greatest of human frailties, capable of producing good and incapable of avoiding evil.”
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“The powerful do not believe they need to be resurrected because they think they are unshakable, like the Eiffel Tower made of iron and not flesh, soulless, cold as a railroad track.”
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“The powerful do not know how to love; the man of iron is cold, he knows how to envelop and bind in order to subjugate, to enslave.”
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“The sense of belonging. This is marriage.”
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“The old man lives on the dead and awaits death.”
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“Love has nothing free about it, because fear does not allow this utopia to be exercised.”
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“Man would not survive in the dark without a light bulb to illuminate a page to read or to power a computer on which to type a new world, which also depends on energy.”
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“The end is not a distant appointment, but a present that perpetuates itself, and so we die continuously and are dead even when we breathe.”
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“The fragility of fine Murano glass or Bohemian crystal: beautiful, elegant, but it takes very little for it to shatter and turn into useless fragments. Knowing its nature, one must be careful how one uses it, how one preserves it: one must keep it away from places where impetuous actions are performed, because otherwise that fine glass becomes nothing, just a memory.”
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“Fragility remakes man, while power destroys him, reducing him to fragments that turn to dust.”
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“Jealousy is the fear of being alone, now that the perfect formula for wholeness has been found, which means completion, security.”
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“My fragility leads me to love, so love is the answer to a need born of fragility, of the perception that without the other, my being in the world is doomed only to death, to non-existence; and the loneliness of the glass man is the worst of all diseases, of the diseases of living.”
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“Fear is not only linked to physical pain, to the feeling of no longer functioning, it also attaches itself to well-being, which has a mental and social dimension, to how one lives with one's personality within that environment made up of relationships.”
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“The perception of the end is within each of us, it is a stigma of the species, a mark of its transience.”
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“The presence of the divine in the world should serve to calm the visceral pride and sense of human omnipotence that exalt power and domination.”
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“Repetition has always been the source of certainty.”
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“Old certainties appear as gross errors, and there is now a need to educate, and to do so urgently, at a time when no one knows what it means anymore, since for several generations, throughout the 20th century, this term has not been used, obsolete and with the flavor of something dirty and perverse.”
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“Violence does not make history, it is not a difficulty that can be worked through, but simply a war that leads only to the death of love and sometimes even of its protagonists.”
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