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Dad's book and the discussion of Italy, who are they?

Lovers of the children, educate less and less. Send passions

What remains of the father? Good question, on the day of Father's Day, which comes just days after the celebration of the unification of Italy. And if Father's Day somehow coincide with the celebration of unity the family? It would be nice, after all, after years of disintegration. Assuming that someone explain what is left of what all the experts are unanimous in considering the ring for some time now 'critical' of the household. Literally critical. Here, then, to get properly in the library, published by Cortina, the essay by Massimo Recalcati, just with that title: "What remains of the father?" The thesis from which side is that parents today are more concerned to be loved by their children to educate them, the more eager to protect that bear conflicts. Which is all the more reason for fathers, indeed, could well be more radical Recalcati stating that the function education is increasingly being left to the mother, who shall bear not only what was traditionally his task (household management) but also what was once shared with her husband in raising children. In short, while the mother has stepped up its duties, the father was taken away from almost everything. Especially if you add the task of helping the mother figure, with her husband, to the economic livelihood of the family: more than 27 hours of work!

About 27 hours. As our readers (and readers) know, it opened a few days ago in the on-line to run a blog called "The Twenty-Seventh now» , Where the question raised by Recalcati pretty interesting responses, which put into play the set distance from work more often, the difficulties of imposing a ban in a society that seems to give too much like ours, the growing gap between registry parents (late) and children, the obstacles "momentous" in the relationship between generation and generation.

The key point of the book Recalcati is this: the legacy. That is, the ability to convey the desire from one generation to another. And in this perspective must be drawn to what appears more like a fatal problem and even inevitable: the dissolution of the father. His father, Recalcati notes (which is one of the most famous Lacanian psychoanalysts), is no longer the Father with a capital letter, ie, pater familias, and any attempt to restore that kind of order or law that can not be bankrupt today. So what remains of his father? Or rather what is left to the father (with lower case)? There remains the possibility of witnessing children passions, vocations, projects, without claiming to offer patterns or universal values \u200b\u200bof the past.

"What the father leaves to his son - Recalcati writes - is not an ideal witness because the witness is never true ideal." Not a model or symbolic, but the strength of the experience alive and real. This does not absolve him of course from meeting the no and then from addressing the conflict, which is essential to growth and maturation of children. Recalcati, devotes the last chapter of his paper (at times deliberately provocative) to the father figures in two films by Clint Eastwood, "Million Dollar Baby" and "Gran Torino." Do you remember the relationship between the old fighter-trainer and his daughter 'taken' Maggie Fitzgerald, destined to become champion? It was one of the most poignant parables of authorship of our time: the value of what is transmitted to the younger generations, finding a balance between excessive fear and too courage.

From the Corriere della Sera.