Uploaded: December 2014, Issue 26
 

Pietro Barbetta

Professor of Psychodynamic Theories at Bergamo University – Trainer at CMTF – Member of the Centro Isadora Duncan- Coordinator of the Permanent Seminar Bateson-Deleuze-Foucault, www.bidieffe.net

Abstract

Irony is a description and in order to describe something, you need to distance yourself a little bit. Irony is a practice, and could be a clinical practice.

In this essay, I will try to describe the therapeutic practice of Gianfranco Cecchin, a genial inventor of ironies. In some ways we could say that, with Cecchin, irony coincided with his ongoing therapeutic conversation.