A Lapsus, My Little Readers: The Presence of Psychoanalysis in Giorgio Manganelli's Pinocchio: Un libro parallelo. (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Diazzi, Alessandra
• Is Part Of: Italianist. Volume 39:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 81
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Pinocchio -- psychoanalysis -- analytical psychology -- Giorgio Manganelli -- Sebastiano Timpanaro -- parapraxis; Pinocchio -- psicoanalisi -- psicologia analitica -- Giorgio Manganelli -- Sebastiano Timpanaro -- lapsus; Italian language -- Periodicals; Italian literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Italy -- Periodicals; 945.005
• DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2019.1578578
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-4340

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article demonstrates the considerable influence of both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology on Giorgio Manganelli's rewriting of Carlo Collodi's Le avventure di Pinocchio in his Pinocchio: Un libro parallelo (1977), an aspect of this text that scholarship has mostly overlooked. Here, I examine this book in relation to the contemporary debate around psychoanalysis and the legitimacy of its dissemination in Italian culture. Specifically, I argue that Manganelli's 'parallel Pinocchio' can be interpreted as an oblique and ironic alternative to the polemical approach to psychoanalysis proposed by Sebastiano Timpanaro in Il lapsus freudiano (1974).