L’“innesto” hegeliano nella psichiatria fenomenologica

The aim of this article is a comparison between Hegel’s and Phanomenological Psychiatry’s approach to madness. The dialogue, as I try to show, can be profitable to answer the question regarding the subject and the sense of madness in its ontological constitution. In the first part of the article I describe some characteristics of the phenomenological psychiatry, with particular attention to Ludwing Binswanger’s formulations: thematic horizon and purpose is to understand human presence (Dasein verstehen) which resists even in the moment of maximum disintegration – the madness. In the second part I deal with the comparison between phenomenological psychiatry to Hegel regarding the approach and the sense of psychic therapy: far from writing (behavioral or pharmacological) prescriptions, both Hegel and Phenomenological Psychiatry are inclined to a human therapy, centered on trusting and listening to the "patient". The cure is the bijective recognition between therapist and patient as well as the first reconstructed "world" after that the subjectivity has collapsed into med representation (Hegel) and in the flight of ideas (Binswanger). In conclusion, I focus on the significance that madness has for the constitution of subjectivity and for its continuous grow in both historical and social reality: madness – from melancholy to schizophrenia – is a subject's way of being in the world that, albeit in the highest isolation, still retains the (spiritual) character of relationship, thus showing its ontological openness (to the world and to the other).