Overview

The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s. It addresses alienation as a social condition of estrangement caused by the capitalist system, a pathological state of the mind and an ontological condition of subjectivity. Contributors to the edited volume explore the pervasive influence this multifarious concept had on literature, cinema, architecture, and photography in Italy. The collection also theoretically reassesses the notion of alienation from a novel perspective, employing Italy as a paradigmatic case study in its pioneering role in the revolution of mental health care and factory work during these two decades.

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Author:   Alessandra Diazzi ,  Alvise Sforza Tarabochia
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.359kg
ISBN:  

9783030151522

ISBN 10:   3030151522
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Social and Mental Alienation in Italy between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead (Alessandra Diazzi and Alvise Sforza Tarabochia)Part I. Spaces of Alienation2. Into the De/Construction of the Psychiatric Space (Emanuela Sorbo)3. Doctor in Slaughter: Emilio De Rossignoli’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Fabio Camilletti)Part II. Workers at Olivetti4. Volponi-Ottieri-Olivetti and the Ills of Homo industrialis: Returning to a ‘Civiltà della natura’ as a Questionable Antidote to the Urban-Industrial Malaise (David Albert Best)5. “Sentirsi Scorticati Vivi”: The Theme of Alienation in Ottiero Ottieri’s Works (Fabrizio Di Maio)6. Paolo Volponi’s Memoriale: Industry between Alienation and Utopia (Tiziano Toracca)Part III. Psychoanalysis and Alienation7. Alienation and Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on Italy in the Years of the Economic Miracle (Alessandra Diazzi)8. Psychoanalysis in Milan in the Age of Dis-Alienation: The Case of Elvio Fachinelli (Pietro Barbetta)9. From the Factory to the Asylum…and Back: A Lacanian Perspective on the Cinematic Representation of Alienation in Elio Petri’s La classe operaia va in paradiso (Luca Di Gregorio)Part IV. The Asylum10. Manicomiche: Madness, Language and the Dismantling of the Asylum in Gianni Celati’s Comiche (Michele Ronchi Stefanati)11. Mental, Social and Visual Alienation in D’Alessandro’s Photography (Alvise Sforza Tarabochia)12. ‘L’alienato nella cella è libero.’ Mario Tobino between Le libere donne di Magliano and Per le antiche scale (Wissia Fiorucci)

Reviews

As a total contribution to the cultural history of the economic boom, this volume is a welcome, successful, and impressive accomplishment. (Jim Carter, Italian Studies, November 22, 2019)

Author Information

Alessandra Diazzi is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work focuses primarily on the reception of psychoanalysis in Italian culture, with a particular focus on the relationship between psychoanalysis and impegno in Italy. She has published articles on contemporary Italian literature and cinema. Alvise Sforza Tarabochia is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent, UK. His research encompasses visual culture and psychiatry in Italy. He has published a monograph on the theoretical implications of Basaglia’s thought, as well as articles on Italian literature, biopolitics, visual culture, and psychoanalysis.

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