Cesare Musatti

Cesare Musatti
Born	21 September 1897 Dolo, Italy
Died	21 March 1989(1989-03-21) (aged 91) Milan, Italy
Citizenship	Italy
Alma mater	University of Padua
Scientific career
Fields	Psychoanalysis

Cesare Luigi Musatti (21 September 1897 - 21 March 1989) was an Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst. He was a leading figure for the first generation of Italian psychoanalysts.^[1][2] Musatti studied under Vittorio Benussi before becoming his assistant.^[2] Musatti edited the Italian edition of the works of Sigmund Freud.^[3]

Life

Musatti's mother was a non-practicing Neapolitan Catholic, while father was Elia Musatti, a Venetan Jew who had been elected as a socialist deputy to the Italian parliament where he became a friend of Giacomo Matteotti. Musatti was neither baptised nor circumcized. During the fascist persecutions after the passage of Italy's racial laws, he managed to obtain a false baptisimal certificate from the Carmelites at Santa Maria in Traspontina. Though unreligious, he had his own children baptised according to the rites of the Waldensian Evangelical Church.

Selected works

• Trattato di psicoanalisi, Paolo Boringhieri, Torino

References

1. David B. Baker (13 January 2012). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-19-971065-2.
2. International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Thomson Gale. 2006. pp. 1087–1088. ISBN 978-0-02-865924-4.
3. Samuel Arbiser; Jorge Schneider (17 April 2018). On Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Taylor & Francis. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-429-91683-0.