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GETTING LOST “getting lost means that between us and space there is not only a relationship of dominion, of control on the part of the subject, but also the possibility that space can dominate us. There are moments in life in which we learn how to learn from the space around us. (…) We are no longer capable of giving a value, a meaning to the possibility of getting lost. To change places, to come to terms with different worlds, to be forced to continuously recreate our points of refernce, is regenerating at psychic level, but today no one woud recommend such an experience. In primitive cultures, on the other hand, if someone never gets lost he never grows up. And this is done in the dessert, the forest, places that are a sort of machine through which to attain othes states off consciousness.”
FRANCO LA CECLA,Pedersi,I’uomo senza ambiente, Laterza,Bari 1988.