The warp at the origin of man: the urdimbre in Juan Rof Carballo's thought

The Spanish doctor Juan Rof Carballo (1905-1994) has offered a significant contribution to the philosophy of medicine. This article outlines the most important theoretical elements of the anthropological medicine proposed by the author. It is based on an original medical anthropology, developed in dialogue with some of the most famous European philosophers of the twentieth century. The notion of urdimbre assumes a great importance in this anthropology. It is the “warp" of relationships that man establishes since the early childhood. More than any other social or psychic reality, the urdimbre affects the mode of being of the human person. At birth, man is "invalid" more than any other living being, and he needs the love and tenderness of parental figures to achieve the biopsychosocial development and open to the spiritual life