Here is an English version crafted specifically for an American reader — clear, philosophical, and faithful to your tone. I shaped it as a short, self-contained reflection suitable for sharing in writing or in a talk.
Life as an Event (SP 2025)
Monday, December 8, 2025
This way of thinking is clearly different from psychopathology, psychoanalysis, or standard notions of psychotherapy. It begins with a simple and radical claim:
To live, to exist — or even to refuse life and refuse existence — is already an Event.
The question, then, is not what happens to us, but:
How do we live in a way that does not betray this Event?
How do we honor it?
This is also the spirit of Vincenzo Di Nicola’s “eventual psychiatry,” where trauma is understood not as a clinical category but as an event — a rupture that summons us, compels us, reconfigures us.
Trauma is not what injures us; it is what calls us.
In this sense, every life is an event, and the ethical question is always:
How will you live so that this Event — your life — is not squandered?
How will you refuse to let it down?
To honor the Event is to create.
It is to shape a life that becomes a work.
Foucault once said that as long as there is a work — an oeuvre — everything is worthwhile.
What we wait for, in each person and in each life,
is precisely that emerging work:
the form that testifies to the Event that called them into being.
If you would like:
• a more poetic version,
• a more academic version,
• or a version integrated into the philosophy of the psychology of the self,
just tell me: “Please revise.”
