By Genovino Ferri
This article was born from the intention of putting together a number of “interpretative lenses” to provide a four-dimensional, or 4D, perspective. This is to say that we should also associate the fourth dimension, time, with its bottom-up arrow with the three highly visual dimensions of height, breadth, and length while including corporeity.
This offers a contemporary, Reichian-analytical perspective, recounting the birth and transformation of the Father figure, indicating certain bifurcation points in its evolutionary verticality from the beginning of time through to today’s instantaneous, horizontal, accelerated existence.
The wish is to comprehend the complex contemporaneousness of our uncertainties and perhaps to offer some more appropriate relational patterns with the Other-than-us world. In particular, the object of study is the Father figure in his existence in the “living social body” over the history of our evolution, together with the implications of the network it is correlated with.
An eye to both respect for and the inclusion of all emerging factors within current social reality is intrinsic to the article, even though it also underlines the beyond threshold, which may often connotate some of these.
It is a body psycho-analytical description seeking to clearly articulate the container-contained interaction, placing greater emphasis on the container: Being a Father figure is an organisational, evolutive state in the sense that this “paternal” role may be performed by men, or by women and by individuals, but also by groups.
This article offers a four-dimensional vision to better examine the lineage of the intelligent, negentropic sense of the phenomena we are immersed in. And it represents the opportunity to be other than mere linear dyadic thought. It aims to stimulate the capacious inclusion of phenomena while conserving the luxury of differences and the definition of limits.
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