The Remote Origins of Psychoanalysis in Italy: Modernism and the Psyche in Florence, 1903-1915
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The article studies the reception of psychoanalysis by a circle of young intellectuals in pre-war Florence. It focus es on Roberto Assagioli, the first Italian psychiatrist to show commitment to the psychoanalytic movement, and explores his relationship to Florentine modernist reviews of the time. The article argues that important Italian authors such as Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini embraced expectations about the studies on the un conscious, while maintaining an ambivalent relationship with the most recent developments in psychology. The result was that the Florentine cultural context presented both possibilities and limitations for psychoanalysis. On the one hand, it became a scenario for spreading information and promoting psychoanalytic ideas.
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