Italo Sveo i psihoanaliza
Italo Svevo and Psychoanalysis

Summary/Abstract: Zeno's conscience is one of the most paradigmatic cases of Freud concepts 's influences in one novel, within the frame that goes beyond Italian literature, just to reach wider scene of 20th Century European culture. What actually unifies formal structure of the novel in one level, is definitely psychoanalysis, that Zeno went through aiming to be cured, without hiding its perplexity regarding treatment. Svevo was influenced by Freud as well as by other three psychoanalysts: Wilhem Stekel, one of the first Freud's followers, the one who suggested Wednesday meetings, Edoardo Weiss and Rene A. Spitz, who influenced Svevo in different important ways and whom he used to visit and got acquainted with. Apart from three aforementioned psychoanalysts, Freud had also influenced Svevo's novels in a remarkable way. Svevo had read psychoanalytic works for a long time and, exactly to psychoanalysis he dedicated more space in his novels, even though he was not keen to admit it later. However in the end of Zeno's conscience, Svevo denies psychoanalytic treatment, systematically explaining its foundings, depriving it of any values and twisting it. Zeno had completely arranged his own diseases within himself and, they completely provided him with temporary, partial balance, that seemed to him to be the health, after psychoanalysis.

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