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Critical Hermeneutics
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Critical Hermeneutics, 7(1) 2023
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                            Editors’ Introduction


                                (The Moment is Now)




It is not easy to talk about and make people understand what the
meaning of attention is, which is often confused with concentration,
with observation, or it can even be absorbed into other conceptualiza-
tions or forms of experience. In depth psychology, Sigmund Freud
tells us that to favor the unconscious the analyst must try to enter a
state of fluctuating attention. Carl Gustav Jung often warns us to pay
attention because what we experience is “simultaneously” conscious
and unconscious. This, later, led to the possibility of experiencing
multiple non-linear and consequential but synchronic worlds in one
space-time (also thanks to the theory of synchronicity, developed
through a dialogue with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli).
      In this context, especially after the daring openings and hypoth-
eses from the latest quantum physics, the concept of reality changes
and requires, in order to make sense, a great deal of attention.
      The very concept of “psychic” takes on a stronger and more ex-
periential value if, as the Greek etymology states, psyché is a breath
that passes and “animates” things, but eludes any attempt at objecti-
fication.
      Given this premise, namely the inability to define the psyché
precisely, attention is an essential condition in order to be able to
perceive the subtle presence-absence that continually animates us
and animates infinite possible and “contemporary” worlds.
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      A great spiritual master of our time, Jiddu Krishnamurti, sees
and describes attention as a moment in which one experiences what
in his speeches he called "enormous energy", in which all forms of
consciousness coincide. Even if not guaranteed by any method,
something “so extraordinary” “could happen" as to revolutionize indi-
vidual and collective life, the only true and profound revolution: the
"freedom of the known" as he called it, that is, experiencing that
eternal present that exceeds the space-time of consciousness phe-
nomenologically understood.
      The works of psychologists and psychoanalysts, with different
facets, address this arduous and difficult issue of attention.
      Frome our perspective, we would conclude our brief introduction
and reflection with some verses that J. Krishnamurti wrote among his
few written things, since his teaching was mainly oral; these verses
had the title The song of life and read:


      I sit in the temple
      I sit by the wayside
      Watching the shadows move
      From place to place


      This is “attention”, this is living the eternal present in which that
human and cosmic “tremendous energy”, enclosed in the mysterious
experience of Existence, can take place and one experiences the
unique true re-volution: “Life liberated”.


                Mariannina Failla (Univ. of Rome Tre), Luigi Aversa (CIPA)




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