Autor/Autorin: Gómez Salas Ramiro Alonzo
D. in Psychology. Principal Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima. Former Chief of the Psychology Service of the National Institute of Mental Health V. Larco Herrera. Larco Herrera National Institute of Mental Health. President of the Peruvian Society of Existential Phenomenological Psychology (APPFE).
The vulnerability of the human being lies, as expressed in the Latin word from which it derives, in the inevitable condition of the wound. Tearing the surface, breaking the continuity of the fabric, biological or existential, dislocates, isolates, summons pain, brings the experience of finitude. We are wounded; it is our vulnerable condition. The response to our vulnerability must be care, hospitality, compassion, companionship, love. The hyper-consumer society makes, almost impossible, the deployment of the profoundly human, because of the superficial and the artificial put in the spectacle of everyday life.