When nothing is more as before. Pain shapes as traces of experience and transformation

Abstract

Pain urges us to know our very being and with an awareness often accompanied suddenly by illness, madness, the discomfort of living. Beyond purely descriptive purposes, the contribution proposes a rereading of the events connected with the different forms of pain as key to interpret the condition of fragility of the people. In this direction we can see the foundations of a pedagogical reflection based on anthropology and phenomenology, that faces different themes: the intertwining fragility-pain, the dark aspects of the human condition and the many faces of fragility, emphasizing an educational practice linked to the exercise of the 'boundaries' proper to the most deeply human experiences. In relation to these experiences, the need arises to seek personal balances, even if fragile, as opposed to the innumerable moments in which life gives us back, instead, only dichotomy, contrast, strain. Because of a world that appears torn and inhabited by the discomfort, education is called upon to help person to cross pain.