Freud and Italian Culture

The Editors: Pierluigi Barrotta is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa. His current research is on the epistemology of ecology and environmental science. His publications include Controversies and Subjectivity (2005), edited with M. Dascal. He has recently published Il liberalismo nell’età dei conflitti (2008), in collaboration with Sebastano Bavetta.Laura Lepschy is Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, Honorary Professor at the University of Bangor and Emeritus Professor of the University of London. She has published on Italian authors from the Renaissance to the present day and on the history of taste.Emma Bond recently completed her D.Phil. at the University of Oxford on the theme of illness, silence and identity in the works of Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini. She teaches Italian literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and is Research Coordinator for Italian Studies at Oxford.

• Contents: Pierluigi Barrotta/Laura Lepschy: Introduction – Elio Gioanola: Psicanalisi e critica letteraria – Brian Moloney: Neither yung nor easily freudened: Italo Svevo and Psychoanalysis – Eduardo Saccone: Ripetizioni: Freud, Svevo e La coscienza di Zeno – Elizabeth Schächter: The Anguish of Assimilation: The Case of Italo Svevo – Anna Maria Accerboni Pavanello: Poesia, arte e letteratura negli ‘anni della psicoanalisi’ a Trieste: l’esperienza di Arturo Nathan – Ruth Glynn: The Double Wound: Towards a Gendering of Trauma and Terrorism – Stefano Brugnolo: Il libro sul motto di spirito di Freud e la sua relazione con la teoria letteraria – Aldo Giorgio Gargani: Psychoanalysis: Science or Aesthetic-Linguistic Research? – Corrado Sinigaglia: Back to Freud: Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology in Enzo Paci – Alessandro Pagnini: Philology, Materialism and Psychoanalysis: Sebastiano Timpanaro on Freud – Giovanna Rita di Ceglie: Freud’s Appeal to Italian Psychiatrists: Then and Now. A Personal View – Giorgio Pressburger: L’agnizione.