Cycles of re-creation — a psychoanalytical approach to music
pp. 165-182
in: Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danieli, Giuseppe Longo (eds), The two cultures, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstract
Creation — this is a common issue for both cultures. Natural science is interested in the origins of life, its emergence and differentiation and ability for self reproduction and variation. I want to mention here my friend Pier Luigi Luisi (now in Rome) who dedicated his scientific life to this fascinating question.1 The humanities on the other side of the spectrum are interested in the origin of mind and psyche, of emotions and our ability for relationship. For a psychoanalytic approach both interests belong together, they appear as the two sides of the same fascinosum and of the same greater reality. I would like to call our different approaches to this one reality, by natural science or by humanities as "complementary" — following an idea of Wolfgang Pauli [1].