The fucked Baron: the fucking off for all students
A fifty years experience at University (as student, researcher, professor, researcher trainer) witnesses a collected remembrance: the passion for scientific research and the bitterness in assisting to its slow agony, amidst the ruins of Italian University. In a short memorial, irony smooth’s sarcasm.
The university full professor, named “baron”, was knocked down: this became a colossal deceit for all students. The deceit was slowly injected, like a poison, both in the students and into all the trainers of future professional men and managers, who will populate and may be govern Italy. From the accusation that the university professor was a fucked baron, the spirit became an effective fucking off for all students.
The overthrow of the university baronage has been transfigured into a colossal deception served up to students and in the training of future professionals who will populate and perhaps govern Italy: from an accusation of a screwed baron to a subtle but effective mass screwing.
Having reached the end of his university career as a researcher, lecturer and research director, a full professor, now Emeritus, aimed at describeing the collapse of Italian universities, which took place progressively over the last half century. With bitterness, muffled by a bit of irony, the author describes the progressive suffocation of scientific research, up to its mystification and destruction, and likewise the progressive mortification of university professors, forced to flee, or to withdraw, or to disengage from facing tasks that are impossible if not with their mystification.
The title expresses the starting point of a progressive demagogy, that is the accusation of the university professor of being a “baron”, in his development the baron is a “fucker”, he must be punished / fucked up to his epilogue: the screwing of all the students , who are now deceived by a bogus training, which really “fucks them“, when they enter the world of work hoping that their title of “doctor” will open the doors of life to them.
The foolery of the rulers in facing the growing number of students with the consequent economic problems, has generated compliance and then complicity of the university managers, in a progressive collusion of hypocrisy, mystification and deceit, up to the corruption of many university areas. This has triggered discontent and accuses all university professors – who have been defined by many newspapers as sloths – ridden by the rulers to “punish” the alleged guilty ones. The punishment further penalized the university organizations and the result was the further progressive decay of structures at all levels. The latest reform is completing the destruction by masking it with the political moralism of a better future.
The Appendix “Birth, death and transfiguration of Italian Clinical Psychology” is an extremely significant document that the author proposes in order to retrace the various stages that marked the birth and evolution of Clinical Psychology in Italy. Through the most significant bigwigs (Gemelli, Fornari, Ossicini, Zapparoli and many others) who have provided their decisive contribution to this discipline and through the regulatory and legislative changes that have taken place over the years, these pages prove to be fascinating for all those who did not experience these events directly, allowing them to grasp the struggles that Clinical Psychology and its supporters have had, and still have to face, for a full recognition of this subject.