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The essay analyses the history and characteristics of resistance and opposition in the German Democratic Republic (Gdr). A very varied and complex phenomenon in an authoritarian State that offi cially denied the existence of any form of dissent. The debate is made even more delicate by the comparison with the forms of dissent of the other dictatorial experience of contemporary Germany, the National Socialist regime. The essay, after defi ning some methodological choices, divides the history of resistance in the Gdr into two stages: the fi rst from the foundation of the Democratic Republic to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961; the second from 1961 to the fall of the communist regime in 1989. In these two periods the forms of resistance, the behaviour of the authorities, the methods of repression and control and the methods of adaptation of East German citizens to the political and social reality of the Gdr changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the international workshop held on October 15, 2021 at the headquarters Brissinese of the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. It mentions forms of vagrancy and in general the irregular mobility of the poor, marginalized or simply of those people perceived as dangerous by authority. It also mentions method of repression and punishment and nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

In this article, the Author proposes to use neuroscience as a theoretical and epistemological frame aimed at offering a new perspective within the psychoanalytic theory. Specifically, the author uses the neuroscientific assumption of a structurally relational mind, and therefore strongly influenced by the relationship with the external environment, as a vertex through which to highlight the importance of the interpretation of interpersonal dynamics typical of psychotherapeutic process, emphasizing likewise, through the use of some clinical vignettes, the centrality that today covers attachment theory in directly influencing the maturational processes of brain structures. This perspective makes it possible to review concepts such as repression, transfert, denial, in the light of neuroscientific discoveries on implicit memories; moreover, it makes possible to re-read the psychoanalytic process as an experience of emotional and relational learning able to favor changes in the microcomponents of the patient's cerebral system, consequently determining changes in the organization of emotional patterns and in the prevailing states of mind, creating new memories of the self and of the self in the relationship with the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Storia del pudore. La questione sessuale in Italia 1860-1940", by Bruno P. F. Wanrooij and introduces an academic debate on the subject of human sexuality.