Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS PROJECTION Projection consists in denying that certain thoughts, feelings, and negative urges are one’s own and attributing them to others in order to bolster one’s own self-esteem. “I’m not the bad one, he is.” And the price to pay for this kind of behavior is in not knowing one’s own or even the other’s authentic self, leading to the inability to effect any real change. For that reason, the projection mechanism can be effectively...

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS REIFICATION Reification is the psychic process that transforms a person into a thing. It’s that way for the word: The speaker of the word is no longer as important as the word spoken, which takes precedence over the person speaking. In that regard, the history of Western theology has been noticeably affected by the reification of the word. So for that reason, Albisettian psychospiritual analysis puts everyone on guard against idolatry....

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS MEMORY In the psychospirituality that is my hallmark, memory, like listening, is the overcoming of one’s own imaginary constructs and of one’s own narcissism. And, in fact, whoever is deprived of memory lives in a world of illusions. The past, which can no longer be changed, is outside our ego’s control and its desire for omnipotence. The past can only be listened to and interpreted as the root of the present. For this reason, memory of...

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS LISTENING Whatever comes from the imagination is the fruit of a strong sense of one’s “I” – one’s narcissism or image of oneself. But no religious text, like the Bible, is able to break the narcissistic chain. Its first words: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth,” (Gen.1:1) indisputably establish that the role of the Creator is God’s, not man’s. That being the case, then being human doesn’t mean being creative, but being...

ALBISETTIAN PSICOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS CONVERSION In Albisettian Psychospiritual Analysis the process of conversion isn’t only a matter of the will, the reason, but also of the psyche, the unconscious. Consent and contrition are still of fundamental importance, but, for me, the processes of self-analysis and self-criticism must be added to those. That doesn’t mean that Christian conversion can be reduced to a psychoanalytical technique, since we’re told that the origin and the...

ALBISETTIAN PSYCHOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS TRANSCENDENCE The impossibility of a human being’s seeing the face of God points to God’s transcendence and to the impossibility of manipulating or controlling Him. But today, in this highly technological period in history – a time also of confusion about values and about the meaning of life – the term “transcendence” has been emptied of real meaning. Most commonly it is understood to mean that God is transcendent in the sense that He is...