Alle origini della cura. Il sistema madre-bambino come paradigma del cambiamento e la dinamica del contatto

Abstract

The evolution of homo sapiens is the fruit of a generative process that has lasted for millions of years: natural selection has produced a plastic brain genetically determined not to be genetically determined. In the perspective of a "clinical" pedagogy understood as the science of the individual, the systemic relationships between "the child and the others" - and, therefore, the characteristics of "childhood" - have been assumed as a paradigm of change. Epigenetic development must in fact be conceived as the fruit of a "creative dance" in which genes and environment constitute two axes of determination capable of producing a unique phenotype. In particular, empathic communication and body dialogue play a fundamental role in the learning and training process: they represent the generative engine of an educational and maieutic action that allows the subject to express and to explain its latent potentialities. The very care of the human being has in fact originated from communication: the increasingly conscious use of the hand over time and the recourse to the plurality of bodily languages ​​have made it possible to articulate and give form to virtuous modalities - now increasingly threatened - to enter authentically in contact with the other.