Cesare Musatti
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| birth_date = 21 September 1897
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| death_place = Milan, Italy
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| fields = Psychoanalysis
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| alma_mater = University of Padua
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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.{{cite book|author=David B. Baker|title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5FoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA335|date=13 January 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-971065-2|page=335}}{{cite book|title=International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7SHtAEACAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-02-865924-4|pages=1087–1088}} Musatti studied under Vittorio Benussi before becoming his assistant.
Musatti edited the Italian edition of the works of Sigmund Freud.{{cite book|author1=Samuel Arbiser|author2=Jorge Schneider|title=On Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBVWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT157|date=17 April 2018|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-429-91683-0|page=157}}
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 circumcised. 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