Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica
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| 2024/2025 |
Learning Objectives
Themes
When psychoanalysis meets political and social sciences, subjectivity regains a prominent place in scientific research and in the elaboration of proposals for social intervention. Legal science and psychoanalytic science are also related to the investigative method which uses reason and logic to analyse the subjective circumstances, facts and motives that have contributed to them. Thanks to a strongly interdisciplinary approach it becomes possible to support a transversal competence that supports the observation and understanding of the subjective dynamics involved in the different professional specificities of those who work in the psychological field, educational, social and legal. Lawyers, psychologists, doctors and health professionals, social workers, educators, teachers, pedagogues, child advocates, school administrators, psychotherapists can learn how to value the subjectivity and its movements through specific techniques of observation and legal reasoning to listen, understand and learn to respond to the specificity of his behaviors and thoughts.
Sigmund Freud’s studies on imputability and criminal mind have paved the way for this conjunction between psychoanalysis and law. The analytical work, notes Freud (1906), shows that often delinquent or transgressive actions are committed precisely because they are socially "forbidden" and their execution brings psychic relief to the subject who commits the crime under the effect of anguish. Moreover, by focusing on delinquents out of guilt, Freud overturns the usual pattern about guilt: guilt would "precede" and in a certain sense "cause" crime rather than descend as moral consequence. Here too, criminal behaviour has a regulatory effect on the feeling of guilt which animates it. It is therefore a question of tracing the subjective motivation that led to criminal behaviour, distinguishing between apparent and latent motivations, with a preference for searching and analyzing those which remain implicit, without confusing the criminal motives with those complicated by psychopathological traits. For Freud, in fact, lawyers and psychoanalysts are called to bring to light hidden psychic material, maintaining the specificities of investigation.
The aim of the Summer School 2025 is to provide participants with the fundamental skills, through study, discussion, practical experimentation and seminars, to arrive at an effective interpretative work on the clinical and dynamic aspects of observation materials. This course trains the intentional use of observation and judicial and investigative reasoning from psychoanalytic discoveries, Providing a space for reflection on the effects of the observers identified during the work on the case studies to be questioned. There will also be lines of action that take account of emotional involvement in different professional contexts. The Summer School is proposed to all those working in the educational, social, psychological and legal fields with the aim of extending the potential of university training to the field of professionals in the field of minors. University education can contribute to continuous updating and also enable lecturers and students to integrate field research and professional skills. For those working in the psycho-socio-legal field, it is essential to have training that perfects the competence to observe the specificities of relational and intellectual experience, Competence which will be enhanced and perfected by the procedural procedure as well as by judicial reasoning.
The training will alternate moments of theoretical deepening to moments of discussion on the case studies and rielaboration of the experience for small groups with an experiential methodology. Participants will be invited to present observation materials in order to practice the theoretical content and practical techniques presented step by step during the training days.
Professionals will learn to observe curiosity, fears, fantasies, oppositions, relationship difficulties during consultation, family disputes, bringing the affective competence to the fore. Professionals will thus be easier to become allies of the subject’s resources. The elaboration of literary case studies of judicial and/or police character, together with the participatory simulation, will support the exercise of observational skills in the relational and moral field.
Career prospects
Objectives
The competence to observe the psychic life of the individual and its specificities is considered a transversal competence both in the helping professions and in the forensic, clinical and educational professions. The specific professional skills, integrated with the acquisitions related to the themes of subjectivity, drive, guilt, imputability and punishment in the different contexts obtained during the training days, will favour effective interventions in which the affective involvement and professional dynamics will be more oriented towards the imputability of the subject's psychic acts. The training may be presented as an integral part of continuous professional training (paperwork will be started for the recognition of CME credits in the health sector - psychologists, doctors -; in the forensic sector - lawyers - and at the social workers' association). Teachers and educators will be able to present the certificate of participation in the lifelong learning platforms. In fact, the Summer School initiates the intentional use of observation and judicial reasoning starting from psychoanalytic discoveries, offering the possibility of a space for reflection on the observers' affections detected during the work on the case history that will be discussed. Lines of intervention will also be prefigured that take into account affective involvement in different professional contexts. The examination of affects will contribute to the development of interpretative prudence, enabling participants to learn to avoid errors, misunderstandings and oversights linked to the over-evaluation of sensory "impressions", the predominance of emotional reactions that may develop upon impact with the observed situation, or the prejudiced convictions that individuals bring into play in their relations with others, even unintentionally. Literature becomes a privileged field for drawing on materials and narratives that allow analytical and procedural reasoning to be combined. In particular, literary case histories of a judicial and/or police nature will be used as a prototype of subjectivity in order to trace the subjective recurrences that can be embodied in the case history of our days.
Contents and structure of the course / Syllabus
Activities of PhD Students
The summer school period is from 16 July to 19 July 2025 at the DESP headquarters: via Saffi 42, Urbino.
The course consists of 30 hours of lessons divided between classes, alternative and laboratory; small groups; casework.
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The teaching activity is concentrated in 4 consecutive days with lessons that will be held:
Wednesday 16 July 2025 Law Psychoanalysis Literature
09-10 Freud with Goya in court. Summer school presentation (Maria Gabriella Pediconi - University of Urbino)
10-11 Law and psychoanalysis: a jurist reads Freud (Joseph Weiler- to be confirmed - New York University School of Law)
11-13 From psychoanalysis to legal thought. The work of Giacomo Contri. (Chiara Alvisi - University of Bologna; Raffaella Colombo - Società amici del pensiero ‘Sigmund Freud’ Milan)
14-16 A literary case: Emmanuel Carrère (Tiziano Toracca - University of Udine)
16-18 Round table. Representing murder between judicial case and literature (Alessio Lo Giudice and Angela Condello - University of Messina; Chiara Gabrielli and Maria Paola Mittica -University of Urbino)
21-23 An Evening with "L'Avversario" by Emmanuel Carrère (Reading of selected excerpts by Lucia Ferrati and Glauco Maria Genga)
Thursday 17 Subjects on trial [guilt, remorse, repentance, punishment]
09-11 Legal imputability and psychoanalytic correction (Tommaso Gazzolo - University of Sassari; Franco Lolli - Associazione Lacaniana Italiana di psicoanalisi)
11-13 Trial procedure: the drama of judgement (Alessio Lo Giudice - University of Messina)
14-17 Trial simulation (workshop for small groups)
17-18 Plenary session. The Adversary in the courtroom. (Alessio Lo Giudice - University of Messina; Irene Lilliu - Deputy Prosecutor Court of Pesaro; Maria G. Pediconi - University of Urbino)
Friday 18 Juvenile subjects in court [responsibility, offence/defence, substitute punishment]
09-11 The search for truth in clinical and forensic work (Glauco Maria Genga - Società Amici del pensiero ‘Sigmund Freud’ Milano; Massimo De Mari - Società Psiconalaitica italiana)
11-13 Minors in court: subjects beyond proceedings (Laura Seveso - Judge of the Juvenile Court of Marche; Savino Romani - University of Urbino)
14-15 Ubi Homo ibi Ius (Barbara Boschetti - Catholic University of Milan)
15-17 Case history workshop for small groups
17-18 Plenary session. Minors and the others (Massimo De Mari - Società Psiconalaitica italiana; Savino Romani - University of Urbino)
Saturday 19 Motive, crime, sentence: between jurisprudence and psychoanalysis
09-11 Workshop for small groups led by Irene Lilliu - Deputy Prosecutor Court of Pesaro - and Francesca Perlini - Judge Court of Ancona
11-12 Plenary session. Irene Lilliu and Francesca Perlini
12-13 Conclusions. Who can untie us? (Maria Gabriella Pediconi - University of Urbino)
The course includes the acquisition of 3 credits:
Freudian Doctrine Principles 1 CFU
Trial Reasoning Principles 1 CFU
Elements of Criminal Law 1 CFU
The course gives the possibility to acquire 30 ECM credits for the health professions.
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Professional opportunities
At the end of the course, 3 credits and (upon request) 30 ECM are released.
The course releases 22 credits for social workers and 20 professional credits for lawyers.
The course is also included in the SOFIA platform for teachers of all levels.
This Summer School is offered to all professionals working in the developmental field:
• psychologists and psychotherapists;
• physicians, pediatricians and child neuropsychiatrists;
• speech therapists and psychomotricians;
• managers, teachers and educators;
• child-specialist lawyers, mediators, guardians and trustees;
• social workers;
• high school graduates and three-year graduates.
In collaboration with the "Società Amici del Pensiero Sigmund Freud" of Milano will be involved speakers, experts in the sector, who will bring their technical skills and the most representative cases of their many years of experience.
Participants who can prove that they are enrolled in the Doctorate in Legal Sciences at the University of Messina will benefit from a subsidised fee.
Participants who can prove they are enrolled in the ILP (Lacanian Institute of Psychotherapy) School of Specialisation will benefit from a subsidised fee.
Master's graduates who can prove that they graduated LESS THAN 12 MONTHS BEFORE the date of enrolment will be entitled to a concessionary fee.
Participants will be able to present excerpts from real cases which will be processed as observation materials during the laboratory sessions.
There will be tutors who will assist participants throughout the course.
How to apply for FREUDIAN TOPICS. FREUD IN COURT. With exercises on contemporary literature
- Admission
- Course with free access
- Number of positions
- 50 available
- Useful information
Only if the number of applications exceeds the maximum number of available places, the CVs will be evaluated (to be sent, together with the application, to the Higher Education Office and together with the Course Director) by the Summer School scientific committee.
- Application procedure
- You can apply from the 01/05/2025 to the 30/06/2025 . Using the online procedure you can register to fill in the application and pay with PagoPA (Credit Card, PayPal) to complete the payment of the admission fee.
- Online registration
- Online registration Registration guidelines
- Tuition fees
Registration fee
Module A: Bachelor's degree €200.00
Module B: Master's degree holders and/or professionals €300.00
to be paid in a single payment by 30 June 2024 (registration document).
Teachers may use the Carta Docente
ATTENTION: before making the payment, check whether the minimum number (15) of participants to activate the course has been reached. Payments must be made using the method available under the "payments" item in the menu on the left of the student's personal web page. The fee is net of bank charges. The registration fee includes stamp duty and insurance coverage. Contributions will be refunded only in the event of non-activation of the Course, excluding stamp duty. If the registration fee is paid by a person other than the interested party or by an institution, body or company, the latter must pay the amount according to the same methods and timing indicated above, under penalty of not enrolling in the course. Since the course falls within the institutional activity of the University, the registration fee remains outside the scope of VAT, therefore an invoice will not be issued.
Useful documents and materials
| Course sheet | download |
Information on teaching and research activities
- Organization
Prof.ssa Maria Gabriella Pediconi, RU - Professore aggregato - Dipartimento DESP
maria.pediconi@uniurb.it
- Contacts
- Maria Gabriella Pediconi
- 0722305839 maria.pediconi@uniurb.it
- Savino Romani
- 3395788076 savino.romani@uniurb.it
Administrative contacts
- Secretary’s Office
- Ufficio Dottorati - Post laurea - Esami di Stato
- Via Veterani, 36 - Urbino
- Office hours
- Monday - Friday from 9.30 am to 13pm
- Contacts
- Tel. +39 0722 304637 corsi.postlaurea@uniurb.it
