Il peso della vetta Riflessioni educative sui sensi del cadere
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Daniel Boccacci
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/84
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 33-43 File size 165 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2025-084004
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Anxiety about achievement and dissatisfaction contribute to developing the widespread discontent among contemporary youth. Within this interiority, a logic of the need for continuous performance manifests, leading the individual to imagine themselves as part of a never-ending ‘climb’. The culture of performance obscures the possibility of opening the connection between expectations and existential meaning. This phenomenon leads to an absolutist perception of failure, conceived as a total trauma. Through a hermeneutic lens and with reference to a school experience, guided by the metaphors of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the contents of this essay aim to reconsider failure as a critical space for understanding vulnerability. The diverse range of narratives of the students involved provides a gateway to developing greater awareness of the existential complexity of the meaning of failure and its educational resources.
Keywords: Desire, failure, metaphor, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Daniel Boccacci, Il peso della vetta Riflessioni educative sui sensi del cadere in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 84/2025, pp 33-43, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2025-084004