Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975: Edoardo Sanguineti, Ottiero Ottieri, Andrea Zanzotto

Author:   Alessandra Diazzi
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume:   51
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9781781887981


Pages:   142
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
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Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975: Edoardo Sanguineti, Ottiero Ottieri, Andrea Zanzotto


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Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-siècle cure for middle-class neuroses. The consulting room was, for militant intellectuals, antithetic to class-consciousness and the collective struggle. But despite this resistance from leftist, or Communist, intellectual discourse, psychoanalysis became steadily more influential. In the period up to the late 1970s, the triad of politics-ideology-commitment acted as a threefold track through which psychoanalysis could spread, and the resistance to it transformed Italy into a unique cultural laboratory for experimental negotiation between analysis and Marxism. Many of these encounters occurred in post-war literature, and Diazzi maps out a distinctively Italian, ideological repurposing of psychoanalysis, turning its inward view into an outward tool of political agency.

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Author:   Alessandra Diazzi
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Imprint:   Legenda
Volume:   51
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9781781887981


ISBN 10:   1781887985
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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