Cesare Musatti

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]

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

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