Italian Psychoanalytic Dialogues / NPSA Conference
What is consciousness? What is its purpose and its origin? Awareness, wakefulness, metacognition, subjectivity, experience, phenomenal manifestation? All through the development of Western thinking, philosophers and scientists have been investigating what Arthur Schopenhauer defined as the “cosmic knot” (Weltknoten). The debate has since branched out from the domain of philosophy and become central within the…