Nationality Italian Died 8 April 2013 | Discipline psychoanalyst | |
Born 25 September 1941 ( 1941-09-25 ) Sub discipline knowledge of interiority Similar Alessandra Mottola Molfino, Lou Andreas‑Salomé, Anna Freud | ||
Francesca Molfino (25 September 1941 Rome, - 8 April 2013) was an Italian psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and Freudian psychoanalytic trainer, who was also a writer and activist of the feminist movement.
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Life
She was a member of the Freudian school in Italy. She worked as a psychotherapist with a private practice, mostly with adult patients. In 1979 she helped found and organize the Virginia Woolf Cultural Center (Women's University). He took an active part in the feminist movement and worked in anti-violence centers in support of female victims of abuse and assault. In 2004, with other scholars and scientists, she participated in the establishment of the Association of Women and Science. She faced, in essays and books, the themes of female identity and the relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and culture.
Thought
She considered the female world as a universe still to be discovered, fascinating and wild like an unexplored continent. Her professional activity, as a psychotherapist, but her academic study, of bonds and liberties, analyzed with great curiosity the exchange of letters, intense and emotional, between two protagonists of the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Anna Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome, who helped, with their reflections and their pursuit of knowledge of interiority, to imagine a way of thinking about life away from stereotypes. Driven by the conviction of the "need to develop and build the joints between the separate and social space" and the fact that "people to people exchanges, the group and the institutional structure are three elements that must be kept present in their intersections and they constitute the different degrees through which the subjective becomes political." Silvia Vegetti Finzi, interviewed on the legacy of Francesca Molfino, has especially emphasized the great organizational skills and thinking about psychoanalysis from a female point of view, that is, considering women not as objects of study, but as individuals with interests and desires.