ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on problem of emotional numbness and, in particular, on the paradox of exclusion in which the problem of emotional numbness seems to be caught. Although emotional numbness can be an important component of a depressive state, this chapter will focus only on emotional numbness. Emotional numbness stops the flow of regulative emotions; it can be seen as a silent demand for a real connection between the person and its intimate self. It focuses on the paradox of exclusion which characterizes emotional numbness. The chapter showed how this dynamic reflects not only on the level of personal life, creating emotional numbness and eventually depression, but also on a social and biological level: a water crisis or antisocial behaviors in the professional life are some of the examples presented. The phenomenological use of reduction was proposed as a method to shed light on the complex time and space reality of the hurtful emotions that hide behind the primal exclusion.
