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<p>As Editor-in-Chief, I have the pleasure to introduce and present the new collection “<i>Arena of Liminality</i>” within the Journal Human Arenas: a space for scientific dialogue dedicated to the investigation of the liminal processes of psychic, cultural, and collective life. This section aims to transcend apologetic and oversimplified interpretations of liminality, conceptualizing it instead as a spatio-temporal experience of the “threshold,” which is necessary for understanding psychic and collective phenomena—with a specific reference to the urgency imposed by contemporary dynamics. Within this framework, this presentation wishes to honor the memory of René Kaës and Edgar Morin, both recently deceased, who are identified as paradigmatic figures. Although emerging from different fields—the psychoanalysis of group bonds and the philosophy of complexity, respectively—both scholars analyzed the crisis not as mere pathology, but as a crucial moment of pain, mourning, and anxiety, which nonetheless possesses a profound morphogenetic and reorganizing potential. Drawing upon the Valsiner’s triad of psychic tenets (<i>normativity-liminality-resistance</i>), this article explores how liminal thinking allows us to inhabit the complexity of hypermodernity, and how these two great twentieth-century thinkers—even without ever explicitly employing the term ‘liminality’—stand as true champions of the “<i>in-between</i>.” Furthermore, this presentation emphasizes the urgent need to reconstruct collective transitional spaces to elaborate current crises—ranging from the fragmentation and precaritization of social bonds to ecological and political challenges—thereby avoiding the reification of suffering, violent enactments, and local, dichotomizing solutions. In conclusion, the new <i>Collection of Liminality</i> is configured as a place for interdisciplinary dialogue aimed at deepening the historic development of this notion and implementing its application to explore how the psyche and collective processes navigate uncertainty (encompassing both fear and anxiety, as well as hope and trust), transforming it into an opportunity for creative reconstruction, in continuity with the ethical and speculative legacy of the two commemorated scholars.</p>

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A New Collection for Human Arena: Liminality. In Memory of René Kaës and Edgar Morin

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    2026年6月19日

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  • Raffaele De Luca Picione

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As Editor-in-Chief, I have the pleasure to introduce and present the new collection “Arena of Liminality” within the Journal Human Arenas: a space for scientific dialogue dedicated to the investigation of the liminal processes of psychic, cultural, and collective life. This section aims to transcend apologetic and oversimplified interpretations of liminality, conceptualizing it instead as a spatio-temporal experience of the “threshold,” which is necessary for understanding psychic and collective phenomena—with a specific reference to the urgency imposed by contemporary dynamics. Within this framework, this presentation wishes to honor the memory of René Kaës and Edgar Morin, both recently deceased, who are identified as paradigmatic figures. Although emerging from different fields—the psychoanalysis of group bonds and the philosophy of complexity, respectively—both scholars analyzed the crisis not as mere pathology, but as a crucial moment of pain, mourning, and anxiety, which nonetheless possesses a profound morphogenetic and reorganizing potential. Drawing upon the Valsiner’s triad of psychic tenets (normativity-liminality-resistance), this article explores how liminal thinking allows us to inhabit the complexity of hypermodernity, and how these two great twentieth-century thinkers—even without ever explicitly employing the term ‘liminality’—stand as true champions of the “in-between.” Furthermore, this presentation emphasizes the urgent need to reconstruct collective transitional spaces to elaborate current crises—ranging from the fragmentation and precaritization of social bonds to ecological and political challenges—thereby avoiding the reification of suffering, violent enactments, and local, dichotomizing solutions. In conclusion, the new Collection of Liminality is configured as a place for interdisciplinary dialogue aimed at deepening the historic development of this notion and implementing its application to explore how the psyche and collective processes navigate uncertainty (encompassing both fear and anxiety, as well as hope and trust), transforming it into an opportunity for creative reconstruction, in continuity with the ethical and speculative legacy of the two commemorated scholars.