At the roots of Italian Field Theory

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1 When the fifth national congress of the SPI, on countertransference, was held in 1962, Corrao was a 40-year-old physician. He was born on December 14, 1922 in Palermo. In 1945 – even before graduating in medicine in 1948 – he had started his analysis with Alexandra Wolff Stomersee, a Baltic noblewoman who had trained between 1927 and 1932 at the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis founded and directed by Karl Abraham. Alexandra Wolff Stomersee worked in Vienna and London, and then married the Sicilian Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of the novel Il gattopardo (The Leopard), which depicts the changes in Sicilian society during the Italian Risorgimento; the most famous quotation from this is: “For things to remain the same, everything must change.” After their marriage in Riga, they moved in 1932 to Palermo. A multicultural couple, speaking five different languages, the two of them nurtured their passion for literature and history. They lived in Palermo until 1957, the year Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died.

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Gabriele Cassullo

Gabriele Cassullo is a Member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and IFP Co-Editor in Chief.

David G. Power

David G. Power is a Member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Founding Director of the The Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies and IFP Reader.