Human Rights and Psychoanalysis

Abstract

This paper tries to link, perhaps in the form of a preliminary mumble, two territories that in the history of ideas have been
redically heterogeneous so far: psychoanalysis (a pardigm to explore a subject’s intimate life) and the Human Rights (a notion
born out of the cruelty and brutality of the life together among human beings, on the heinous border of the social bond), as a
paradigm of political space in its failure. In our contemporary world, which has been designated the
planetary village, there is growing evidence that the individual destinations are to be found frequently, if not always, at the
crossroads between individual and collective histories, between the big history and the personal vicissitude. The spheres of the
public and the private generate codeterminations or interacting causalities, the logic of which is obviuos and not easy to decipher
at the same time. The family histories and the families in history can be depicted as interacting figures.