Addressing the question of culture and education as a form of liberation from the idea of human exploitation by human beings inevitably brings up the topic of human nature, which remains to be explored and clarified. If we consider the most revolutionary discoveries in human biology over the past fifty years, the discovery of human birth, developed by Roman psychiatrist Massimo Fagioli, cannot go unnoticed. According to this vision, humans are not only made of needs, but also of requirements. From Marx's insights, made in the second half of the nineteenth century, on the possibility of overcoming the inhumanity of capitalist society through the struggle against human exploitation, the question to be asked is whether, once material needs have been satisfied, we can move on to researching the true fulfillment of human beings, taking into account needs, first and foremost those related to interpersonal relationships and emotional and sexual investment. In an age when they still know nothing about life, the newborn is capable of "imagining" by latching on to the breast and developing trust in humanity.
Equality is grounded in human birth because the emergence of thought from the biology of the body is a universal phenomenon, affecting all human beings. This idea of equality at birth is revolutionary and gives us the opportunity to wage a cultural struggle against all racism: if we think beyond the satisfaction of needs and the fulfillment of demands, the underprivileged must be redeemed from their condition without begging, because human identity is the same for all. If the term "human identity" is affirmed, the terms "foreigner" and "different" are abolished.
Human identity emerges at birth; denying this means killing the humanity within us and justifying violence as an inevitable form of human relationship, which, in addition to racism, leads to war. From this perspective, even the issue of women's emancipation cannot be understood as the achievement of formal equality: it has implications for every perspective of human emancipation.
For those responsible for shaping the minds of children and young people, I believe it is essential to counter the dominant right-wing culture, which views reality as immutable and relies on racist notions of human nature, with a new culture, a "new humanism" that begins by asking what humanity is. Human life begins at birth with a cerebral reaction to light, which Fagioli calls a "disappearance fantasy": the child closes his eyes to the light stimulus and "makes disappear" everything that disturbs him, inanimate things like light, noise, and objects. At the same time, he develops a fantasy-image that stems from the desire for human connection. This demand for connection has no connection to the representation of the external world, nor is it tied to the five senses; it is a creation of thought that has its antecedent in the memory of biological contact with amniotic fluid.
Although human birth, from a positivist perspective, may seem similar to that of other living species, it actually follows a dynamic relationship with the surrounding human reality, which is much richer and more complex than that of other mammals. With birth, therefore, not only the need for nourishment arises, but also the need for an emotional connection. It is crucial, given the delicate nature of the moment, that the newborn find an adequate response to its need for love, because its psychological well-being and human fulfillment will largely depend on this beginning. The newborn, like every other living being, dies if its physical needs are not met, but unlike other living beings, its emotional dimensions are wounded if the need for connection is not met. Needs are inherent to human reality, contrary to any idealism, because the mind also develops through a physical act. The dynamics of birth, due to the biological nature of the disappearance fantasy and the intuition-hope that a breast exists, are entirely rooted in the characteristics of the human species. Subsequently, interhuman relationships are central to the development of thought and the well-being of the individual. No room is left for biological determinism, nor for the idea of a divine origin of thought, nor even for the Enlightenment idea according to which thought is formed by the five senses.
Marxism searches for the experience that provides content for thought in social analysis, ideologies, culture, and the conditions that determine earthly happiness and unhappiness. However, it locates the human experience that underpins thought in economic relations, neglecting the entire phase of life that precedes the formation of the adult individual, thus neglecting birth. What might result if the idea of a humanity that is naturally egalitarian and fulfills itself in the exchange of love and brotherhood with other human beings were to enter culture?
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Link: (en) Italy, FDCA, Cantiere #41 - Human Needs and Requirements - Paola Perullo (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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