It often happens to many people to relive episodes, fragments of life and to start brooding in a pervasive way. It happens because we are unable to detach ourselves sufficiently from people and / or situations that surround us. Just a nothing, a song, an advertising billboard, a shop window, a perfume that brings to our mind a situation that has not been overcome, not accepted and here is the brooding. A very dangerous phenomenon, because it not only spoils the day and ruins the relationship with others, but can have a biological impact on physical health. Unfortunately, the propensity to ruminate on things, to go back to them, to think about how it could have been and how it was, according to a study by the University of Michigan, involves 73% of adults between 25 and 35 years old. As they get older, the problem worsens, affecting 52% of 45-55 year olds.
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Because brooding is not good for us
The word brooding in the current meaning indicates thinking and rethinking, concentrating exactly, stirring. “It comes from the Latin muginàrì interpreted as murmuring or rocking or toying, derived in turn from a Sanskrit root, mugh-mahate, which indicates being vain or doing vain”, he explains Claudio Cassardo, psychoanalyst, active in the Psychology Service of the San Paolo Hospital in Milan.
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In fact, if you stop to think of the word brooding, perhaps the first simple association that comes to mind is the action of ruminating. Ruminants are animals that, in order to digest and assimilate food, need to bring back to the mouth everything they have swallowed and deposited in the stomach.
“In this perspective, brooding can be seen as thinking with the mouth, a mental rehashing dedicated to making a thought gradually less hostile and more bearable, triturating it. And it can consequently be seen in this gesture, bearing in mind the comparison, a complex psychic event that includes both pleasure (thinking about the sense of having something in the mouth to chew continuously), and anger (thinking about the sense of making mush of something). We can therefore hypothesize that man is so fond of this mental practice, albeit in vain, because it can at the same time obtain a double secret relief “, continues Dr. Cassardo.
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“Returning to the Sanskrit root that evokes the dimension of the space and” refers to a paradoxical activity dedicated to ‘repeating a vain doing’, brooding can be seen as a practice that also helps man to bear a very fearful specter, the vain precisely, the ’emptiness’, the emptiness (‘homini aborrit vacuum’). Bearing in mind that one version of the void, perhaps the most abysmal, is time, and a version of time, perhaps the most frightening, is the now. And that brooding by filling, cramming the now, he knows how to avoid it with mastery “the expert continues.
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Cinema and human feelings
Cinema is defined as the seventh art and some films are able to help understand complex human feelings such as brooding. Catherine goes to town, for example, it is a film by Paolo Virzì, starring Sergio Castellitto and on this character the theme of brooding is sewn in a very fitting way.
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“Recalling the help that brooding can provide in the fields of giving pleasure, expressing anger and thwarting emptiness, the professor (Sergio Castellitto), father of the adolescent Caterina who does not allow himself to look up and around in his’ now ‘, and disappears in the images he has in mind linked to the past and in constantly reviewing them, we can imagine that at that moment he has three missions to carry out through his brooding: to please himself, to destroy enemies and to kill time. an interesting fact that brooding can help us to focus, that is the effort that man makes to tolerate the here and now, and what he has in front of the senses, and consequently the effort he makes to notice the world and the beauty of the world “comments the doctor Cassardo.
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“The professor cannot see the beauty of the world because instead of receiving the images of the now that he has in front of his eyes, he emits the images of the past that he continually revisits in his mind and that are behind his eyes, spreading them on the now, smearing the past over the now. But why? Because beauty is painful. And why beauty is painful? , as the poet says, in various ways, one of which is brooding “, he concludes Cassardo.
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