Paper Title
Making the Personal Political: Psychoanalysis and Feminism in the Italian Left, 1961-1969
Start Date
12-6-2011 9:30 AM
End Date
12-6-2011 12:00 PM
Subject Areas
Europe, modern, activism, gender, politics
Abstract
This paper focuses on the writings by Italian filmmaker and novelist Lorenza Mazzetti in the Communist magazine Vie Nuove. I argue that during the 1960s Mazzetti used her articles as a form of criticizing conservative gender and family values within Communist rank-and-file, while also keeping a constant watch about attitudes and values by young Italians. Using a complex mix of Marxism, existentialism, and psychoanalysis, Mazzetti’s writings attacked the split between the personal and the political within Italian Communism’s political culture.
Keywords
Italian Communism - Gender
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Making the Personal Political: Psychoanalysis and Feminism in the Italian Left, 1961-1969
This paper focuses on the writings by Italian filmmaker and novelist Lorenza Mazzetti in the Communist magazine Vie Nuove. I argue that during the 1960s Mazzetti used her articles as a form of criticizing conservative gender and family values within Communist rank-and-file, while also keeping a constant watch about attitudes and values by young Italians. Using a complex mix of Marxism, existentialism, and psychoanalysis, Mazzetti’s writings attacked the split between the personal and the political within Italian Communism’s political culture.