What does it mean to think without closure?
In Traces, Luca Caldironi expands upon the theories of seminal psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion to investigate subjectivity, art, and contemporary culture.
Drawing on Bionian concepts such as unsaturated space, reverie, and transformation, the book argues that art and psychoanalysis share a common task: sustaining the conditions under which thought can emerge.
Exploring embodiment, generative artificial intelligence, and a-chronic time, Traces proposes the trace as a vital figure of orientation within a culture increasingly governed by prediction and optimization.
Challenging the impulse toward neat conclusions, the book defends incompletion as an ethical and creative necessity for our complex modern era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luca Caldironi is an Italian licensed MD and clinical psychiatrist. He is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (SPI), and also holds memberships in APsaA, CIPS and in the IPA. He is a professor at the Martha Harris School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Bologna, Italy and a lecturer at the Padova University, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA). Caldironi’s numerous publications and presentations reflect an emphasis on Bionian thought, especially around the concept of “creativity”, which he also incorporates as director of the Venetian art exhibition space Castello925 (www.castello925.com). He has a private practice in both Modena and Venice.
THE MISSION
Over time, as Caldironi straddled the intersection of the arts and psychoanalysis, he increasingly felt the need to apply his knowledge gained through his clinical work to other fields. From this need, he birthed a new concept called “K-Now-L-Edge” – the study of creativity and its connection to art and psychoanalysis. K-Now-L-Edge is written this way to express certain elements of knowledge – ‘K’ is “to know” – in the “here and
now” (‘Now’) vitalized by passion (‘L’) leading us to proceed always on the (‘Edge’) of speech.
More than simply the sum of the fields art and psychoanalysis, the ambitious purpose of “K-Now-L-Edge” is to give life to a creative space and international movement to realize this possibility. This movement continually evolves, engaging the senses, reason, and intuition. Forming ‘ties’ and ‘associative networks’ between our historical roots in Venice (www.castello925.com) and the evolving spaces in New York City and environs.