Psychoanalysis Ideology And Commitment In Italy 19451975

Over the postwar decades Italys extroverted cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion as a findesicle cure for middleclass neuroses. The consulting room was for militant intellectuals antithetic to classconsciousness 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 lat