Understanding the "dark sides" of writing (manual)

Abstract

The article intends to deal mainly with three concepts that can be summarized in that of "understanding", in that of "writing" – here declined in its manual form – and finally in that of "darkness", all surrounded by a pedagogical-educational framework functional to an adequate reading of the multiple forms of writing: writing, in fact, when it is produced manually and the gestures are well automated, It is not only a form of manifest, explicit language, but also a metalinguistic form of communication, an implicit language that hides dark sides, of different levels, which from childhood should be correctly facilitated by an educational environment sensitive to the expression of graphic gestures that are evolving from the primitive manifestations of scribbling and spontaneous drawing to the most mature and complex manual writing. The latter reflects at the same time the socio-anthropological characteristics of a given cultural context (from which derives a national calligraphic choice and which conditions the manual writing of entire community contexts) and the individual characteristics of the writing subject, whose graphic-writer paths are unique and unrepeatable, nevertheless mirror of their intimate passions.