Dissertazione sul potere dell'immaginazione delle gestanti

Bodies bear the marks of our memory, in some ways are our memory, but the feminine body is our future, our prophecy, the our futuristic. Its fertility sometimes bears fruits that the social imagination perceives as monstrous and for this reason, in return, sediments over the centuries preventive prescriptions that focus above all on the period of gestation, what Ernesto de Martino defines in his work Sud e Magia as "organic-psychic condition of magical morbidity. Because of the delicacy of her condition, the pregnant woman must change her behavior and respect a large number of prohibitions more than or less important, depending on the culture and era to which it belongs, prohibitions of a verbal, motor and feed. The question is extremely interesting, in terms of social control. The woman, who in the slippage anthropological from ovulary society to strategic societyhowever, it retained the extraordinary power of preserve the continuation of the human species, it is harnessed in a double dynamic:On the one hand, it is recognized as an extraordinary power, not only to give life, but to influence its form through its own imagination; on the other hand, through prescriptions, the power that could comfort her emotional and social state backfires in case of deviance from this alleged set of rules. In other words, it is offered legitimate paths along which to run its imagination and blamed in the event of "different" births, and it is blamed on the basis of a system at times patriarchal at times communitarian, in any case always outsourced to individual consciousness of the woman herself.