Author: Friend's Shady

Shady Dell'Amico was born in Pisa on 21/11/1994. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Pisa with a thesis entitled "Evil in God. Psychopathology of the divine in Freud and Jung". He is interested in psychoanalysis, philosophical anthropology and the phenomenology of religion.

Children of a lesser god: Gnostic elements in the Nag Hammadi manuscripts

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The discovery of an entire "Gnostic library" in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, revealed to the world the "cosmic pessimism" of some of the earliest Christian congregations in the Near East, based on the ontological difference between the unknowable God- Father of the Synoptic Gospels and the "God of this world", a figure who has notable correspondences but also sensitive distinctions with the Platonic Demiurge.

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The evolution of God: the moralization of the Sacred between the philosophy of religions and the psychology of the unconscious

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Why does Scripture place evil in God in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament instead outside of God? What does this evolution in the representation of divinity depend on? In this article, some fundamental voices that have studied the process of moralization of the representation of the divine in the Scriptures will be related: those of Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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