This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various
fields of Italian culture such as literary criticism philosophy and art history as well as
discussing scholars who have used psychoanalytical methods in their work. The areas discussed
include: the city of Trieste in chapters devoted to the author Italo Svevo and the artist
Arturo Nathan psychoanalytic interpretations of women terrorists during the anni di piombo
the relationships between the Freudian concept of the subconscious and language in
philosophical research in Italy and a personal reflection by a practising analyst who passes
from literary texts to her own clinical experience. The volume closes with a chapter by Giorgio
Pressburger a writer who uses Freud as his Virgil in a narrative of his descent into a modern
hell. The volume contains contributions in both English and Italian.
