Carotenuto, Aldo

Carotenuto, Aldo
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Born	(1933-01-25)January 25, 1933 Naples
💀Died	February 14, 2005(2005-02-14) (aged 72) RomeFebruary 14, 2005(2005-02-14) (aged 72)
🏳️ Nationality	Italian
💼 Occupation

Aldo Carotenuto was born in Naples in 1933. He studied philosophy first in his city, then moved to Turin, where he completed his studies. He later moved to USA, where he attended the School of Experimental Psychology at New School for Social Research in New York, thus becoming a member of American Psychological Association (APA).

His experience with analytical psychology begins in the United States, in 1960, with Edward Whitmont, then continues in Italy, in 1962, with Ernst Bernhard and, subsequently, with the Freudian Claudio Modigliani.

In Italy, he then obtained the chair of Psychology of personality and individual differences at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he continued his studies and research, especially on the thought of Carl Gustav Jung and its applications, continuing in parallel in his private activity as an analyst.

He has published numerous essays on topics dear to his studies and research, including myth, Western culture, history of psychology, analytical psychology, the relationship between analyst and patient, emotions, creativity, the relationships between literature, art and personality. He has also produced several notable university texts, used both in his courses at the Faculty of Psychology of La Sapienza and in other universities. With his numerous publications, he contributed to spread Jungian thought both at a specialist level and at a popular and literary level.

With Ernst Bernhard, Carotenuto founded, in 1962, together with his other students, the Associazione italiana per la psicologia analitica - AIPA (Italian Association of Analytical Psychology), from which he then left in 1992 following the dispute of one of his former pupil Fiorella Bassan who had rethought with him the story between Jung and Sabina Spielrein. Bassan focused on Spielrein's work on death drive which anticipated Sigmund Freud's work upon the same subject .

On October 30, 1992, he founded the "Centro per la psicologia e la letteratura" (Center for Psychology and Literature), of which he remained president until her death, after which he was later named after him.

Thought

His extensive activity as a scholar, researcher and analyst is evidenced by a vast production that includes articles and books, some of which are central to personal psychology, psychological therapy and the history of psychology. The main themes dealt with throughout the body of his work focus on psychoanalytic practice and the relationships between psychoanalysis, art and literature.

With regard to psychoanalytic practice, he paid particular attention to the problem of transference that is established in the analytic couple. Especially in his works between 1980 and 1988, Carotenuto tackles, with originality, the essential question of the relationship between analyst and patient, highlighting the inauthenticity of the psychoanalyst's concept of "neutrality".

For Carotenuto, the key theme of the psychoanalytic setting, that is the patient's intimate history, makes analysis the theater, par excellence, of Eros and Thanatos, the place where they manifest and clash. Only the authentic awareness and awareness of the strength of the affects brought up in the analytic couple makes the therapist capable of facing the patient's painful requests, whereas, on the other hand, a refusal of this involvement would make the analyst blind and vulnerable, with consequent ineffectiveness of the treatment.

Carotenuto then devotes himself, with numerous essays, to the relationships between psychoanalysis, art and literature, reviewing, under his analytical vision, an itinerary of portraits and voices of various artists observed and scrutinized in the light of their intimate life. He thus analyzed, among other things, the work of Pasolini, Kafka, Dostoevskij, Bousquet, Shakespeare, other poets and painters, moved by the conviction, corroborated by his analytic experience as well as by his historical knowledge, according to which psychological suffering is not enough, on its own, to explain the work of art, but also generates a destiny and a path of inner life which makes its raison d'etre and the final goal to aim for.

The interest in the great protagonists of literary history and the artistic world supports the main thesis of a large part of the production, namely the primacy and the central importance that creativity has for the human being and its realization. Artistic creation in a broad sense, like psychoanalysis, is a path of liberation of individual creative energies, imprisoned and blocked, as it were, by a rigid and incorrect education or by severe neurotic blocks. Nevertheless, psychic complexes (in the Jungian sense) not only testify to the blocking of one's own creative energies, but also address the innumerable and unusual paths that the psyche often takes to free itself or to transform internal pain into an instrument of redemption and creativity along the way of individuation.

Rediscovery of Sabina Spielrein's diaries and works

In "Diario di una segreta simmetria" 1980, a book that had an international resonance and many translations , Carotenuto tells and analyzes the complex story animated by the intertwining of clinical, sentimental and scientific conflicts between Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein who revealed for the first time the importance of transference, a hitherto unknown phenomenon . To this previously unknown page of psychoanalysis, Ottavio Rosati in 1991 dedicated a special episode of Rai 3's program "Da Storia Nasce Storia" (A story is born from history) in which he invited Carotenuto to interpret the triad of characters of his book . The full version of the psychodrama was published as an attachment to the book by Ottavio Rosati Intervista multistrato con Aldo Carotenuto (Multilayer Interview with Aldo Carotenuto). An extract from the episode Il triplo psicodramma di Aldo Carotenuto (The triple psychodrama of Aldo Carotenuto), can be found on YouTube . In 1997 Rosati (with Tania Dimartino) wrote for Rai Cinema, with the advice of Carotenuto, the screenplay for a historical-scientific film on Jung, Freud and Spielrein, A secret symmetry directed by Nelo Risi. Rai acquired the rights but the script did not go into production due to the exit of Liliana Cavani from the direction of the organization. From the book by Carotenuto, in 2002, the film The Soul Keeper was made, directed by Roberto Faenza and produced by Jean Vigò. In 2011, David Cronenberg also drew a further theatrical version of it A Dangerous Method .

Works in English

• A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Jung and Freud, Pantheon Books, 1982
• Eros and Pathos: Shades of Love and Suffering (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #40) , Inner City Books, 1987
• Vertical Labyrinth: Individuation in Jungian Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #20) , Inner City Books, 1985
• The Spiral Way: A Woman's Healing Journey (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #25) , Inner City Books, 1986
• The Difficult Art: A Critical Discourse On Psychotherapy , Chiron Publications, 2013
• Kant's Dove: The History of Transference in Psychoanalysis , Chiron Publications, 1990
• To Love to Betray , Chiron Publications, 2015
• Rites and Myths of Seduction, Chiron Publications, 2006
• The Call of the Daimon: Love and Truth in the Writings of Franz Kafka, Chiron Publications, 2006

Works in Italian

• Gian Vittorio Caprara; Aldo Carotenuto; Alessandra De Coro (1976). Gian Vittorio Caprara, ed. Gli istinti nell'uomo (1 ed.). Venezia: Marsilio. ISBN 9788831702003. LCCN 76467429. Search this book on
• Senso e contenuto della psicologia analitica, Boringhieri, Torino, 1977 (nuova edizione riveduta 1990).
• Jung e la cultura italiana, Astrolabio, Roma, 1977.
• Psiche e inconscio, Marsilio, Venezia, 1978.
• Psicologia della liberazione, Moizzi, Milano, 1979.
• La scala che scende nell'acqua. Storia di una terapia analitica, Boringhieri, Torino, 1979.
• Diario di una segreta simmetria. Sabina Spielrein tra Jung e Freud, Astrolabio, Roma, 1980 (nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata 1999).
• Il labirinto verticale, Astrolabio, Roma, 1981.
• Discorso sulla metapsicologia, Boringhieri, Torino, 1982.
• L'autunno della coscienza, Boringhieri, Torino, 1985.
• La colomba di Kant. Transfert e controtransfert nella relazione analitica, Bompiani, Milano, 1986.
• Eros e pathos. Margini dell'amore e della sofferenza, Bompiani, Milano, 1987.
• La nostalgia della memoria. Il paziente e l'analista, Bompiani, Milano, 1988.
• La chiamata del Daimon. Gli orizzonti della verità e dell'amore in Kafka, Bompiani, Milano, 1989.
• Le rose nella mangiatoia. Metamorfosi e individuazione nell'Asino d'oro di Apuleio, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 1990.
• Amare Tradire. Quasi un'apologia del tradimento, Bompiani, Milano, 1991.
• Trattato di psicologia della personalità e delle differenze individuali, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 1991.
• Integrazione della personalità, Bompiani, Milano, 1992.
• Trattato di psicologia analitica (a cura di), 2 voll., UTET, Torino, 1992.
• Dizionario Bompiani degli psicologi contemporanei (a cura di), Bompiani, Milano, 1992.
• I sotterranei dell'anima, Bompiani, Milano, 1993.
• Riti e miti della seduzione, Bompiani, Milano, 1994.
• Jung e la cultura del XX secolo, Bompiani, Milano, 1995.
• La strategia di Peter Pan, Bompiani, Milano, 1995.
• Le lacrime del male, Bompiani, Milano, 1996.
• La mia vita per l'inconscio, Di Renzo, Roma, 1996.
• Il fascino discreto dell'orrore, Bompiani, Milano, 1997.
• L'eclissi dello sguardo, Bompiani, Milano, 1997.
• Lettera aperta a un apprendista stregone, Bompiani, Milano, 1998.
• Vivere la distanza, Bompiani, Milano, 1998.
• Attraversare la vita, Bompiani, Milano, 1999.
• Breve storia della psicoanalisi, Milano, Milano, 1999.
• Il fondamento della personalità, Bompiani, Milano, 2000.
• Pensare l'invisibile (con Edoardo Boncinelli), Bompiani, Milano, 2000.
• L'ultima Medusa, Bompiani, Milano, 2001.
• L'anima delle donne, Bompiani, Milano, 2001.
• Il gioco delle passioni. Dinamiche dei rapporti amorosi, Bompiani, Milano, 2002.
• Freud. Il perturbante, Bompiani, Milano, 2002.
• Nel mondo dei sogni, Di Renzo, Roma, 2003.
• L'ombra del dubbio. Amleto nostro contemporaneo, Bompiani, Milano, 2003.
• Il tempo delle emozioni, Bompiani, Milano, 2003.
• Oltre la terapia psicologica, Bompiani, Milano, 2004.
• La forza del male, Bompiani, Milano, 2004.
• Apollineo e dionisiaco. Seminari su Nietzsche, Ananke, Torino, 2010.

Bibliography

• Giorgio Mosconi. "Aldo Carotenuto".
• Ottavio Rosati (1994). "Intervista multistarto ad Aldo Carotenuto". Di Renzo, Rome.

External links

• "Il Salto Nel Mondo - Simonetta Putti".
• "Centro Studi di Psicologia e Letteratura fondato da Aldo Carotenuto".

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