Envy? Kill it with humility (Salvatore Capodieci)

Paolo Villaggio, a profound connoisseur of the human soul who also handled it with his tragic comedy, he took it for granted: “No man can consider himself immune from envy. And sooner or later, we all fall into the trap of this negative feeling…”. A dark corner of the human soul which the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Salvatore Capodieci investigates in great depth in a very complete book: “King Solomon and the Phenomenon of Envy”, Lup editions.

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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ENVY

The scholar's reconstruction starts from the assumption that theenvy, defined as "the worst and most unmentionable of emotions", represents a phenomenon so widespread that it affects us all. Without exception. The one that prevails today is the envy of being, more than of having, which derives from forms of social success: power, charm, sympathy, social prestige, mass media attention.

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HUMILITY, THE TRUE ANSWER TO ENVY

And the most effective antidote to envy, as the Scriptures teach, is not found on the psychoanalyst's couch or through the use of some miracle drug, but in a constant, daily exercise of humility. A magic word and an authentic antidote to the depressive darkness of envy. The price and waste of which man pays, even in terms of loneliness, are enormous. As St. Paul suggested, envy, in fact, excludes thefriendship, because a friend is always capable of rejoicing in the good, or success, of another. And indeed, the other's joy is also his own happiness.

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