Cesare Luigi Musatti (21 September 1897 - 21 March 1989) was an Italian philosopher and

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

. He was a leading figure for the first generation of Italian psychoanalysts. Musatti studied under Vittorio Benussi before becoming his assistant. Musatti edited the Italian edition of the works of

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Life

Musatti's mother was a non-practicing

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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

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. Musatti was neither baptised nor circumcised. During the fascist persecutions after the passage of Italy's racial laws, he managed to obtain a false baptisimal certificate from the

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. Though unreligious, he had his own children baptised according to the rites of the

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Selected works

* Trattato di psicoanalisi, Paolo Boringhieri, Torino

References

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