L'idolo. Teoria di una tentazione. Dalla Bibbia a Lacan

[Autom. eng. transl.] The judgment on the figure of the idol and on the practice of idolatry is unanimous and constant: it is, always and for everyone, something negative, dangerous, a reality with which it is good to have nothing to do. The watchword is therefore always the same: the idols must be destroyed. Yet men, of our as of any other age, whether they are believers or non-believers, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, do not stop for a moment to manufacture and adore them. How to explain the universality of this law? Why "is the need for communion in adoration the greatest torment of every single man, as of all humanity, from the beginning of centuries" (F. Dostoevsky)? Why "are there more idols in the world than reality" (F. Nietzsche)? The volume tries to answer these questions by elaborating a theory that places the figure of the idol and the practice of idolatry not in relation to a specific choice of the subject, but more essentially with his own way of being. In the last part of the study we propose an original interpretation of the consumer society whose deeper nature is identified in being ultimately "a comfortable idolatry for low-cost masses". A stimulating philosophical work fueled by the constant and fruitful dialogue with psychoanalysis, biblical exegesis and literature.