The Years of Alienation in Italy: Factory and Asylum Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead

Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Social and Mental Alienation in Italy Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead
	1.1 Social Alienation
		1.1.1 Alienation, Society, and Literature: Theoretical Perspectives
		1.1.2 Industrial Literature and the New Avant-Garde
	1.2 Mental Alienation and the Asylum
		1.2.1 Philosophical Coordinates: Subjective and Social Alienation
		1.2.2 Mental Alienation Represented
	1.3 Summary of Chapters
	References
		Filmography
Part I: Spaces of Alienation
	Chapter 2: Into the De/Construction of the Psychiatric Space
		References
	Chapter 3: Doctor in Slaughter: Emilio De Rossignoli’s Dialectic of Enlightenment
		References
Part II: Workers at Olivetti
	Chapter 4: Volponi–Ottieri–Olivetti and the Ills of Homo industrialis: Returning to a “Civiltà della natura” as a Questionable Antidote to the Urban–Industrial Malaise
		4.1 Matera: “Capitale del mondo contadino”
		4.2 Alienation in Industry and the Factory: Not Only an Urban Ill
		References
	Chapter 5: “Sentirsi Scorticati Vivi.” The Theme of Alienation in Ottiero Ottieri’s Works
		References
	Chapter 6: Paolo Volponi’s Memoriale: Industry Between Alienation and Utopia
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Volponi, Olivetti, and the Dream of an Orderly Industry
		6.3 Beyond Industrial Alienation
		6.4 Inside Albino Saluggia’s Memoriale
		6.5 Concluding Remarks
		References
Part III: Psychoanalysis and Alienation
	Chapter 7: Alienation and Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on Italy in the Years of the Economic Miracle
		7.1 Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Politics in Italy: An Overview
		7.2 Alienation in the Years of the Miracle
		7.3 Psychoanalysis and the Economic Boom: Depersonalization and Industrial Alienation
		7.4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis in Milan in the Age of Dis-alienation: The Case of Elvio Fachinelli
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Interweaving of Political, Social, and Personal Contexts in Milan During the 1970s
		8.3 Fachinelli, Ferenczi, Lacan
		8.4 Fachinelli’s Passion for Freud
		8.5 Reciprocity and Social Criticism
		8.6 L’erba voglio: Social Psychoanalysis
		8.7 Psychoanalysis as a Modern Practice
		References
	Chapter 9: From the Factory to the Asylum… and Back: A Lacanian Perspective on the Cinematic Representation of Alienation in Elio Petri’s La classe operaia va in paradiso
		9.1 The Alienation of the Working Class Between Subjectivity and Social Reality
		9.2 “L’individuo è uguale alla fabbrica!”
		9.3 From a Tool to a Fool
		9.4 Breaking Down the Wall: Is There a Way Out?
		References
			Filmography
Part IV: The Asylum
	Chapter 10: Manicomiche: Madness, Language and the Dismantling of the Asylum in Gianni Celati’s Comiche
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Origins of Comiche
		10.3 Celati and the Antipsychiatric Movement
		10.4 The Political Dimension of the Bagarre: Artaud, Bakhtin, Céline
		10.5 A New Reading of Comiche
		References
	Chapter 11: Mental, Social, and Visual Alienation in D’Alessandro’s Photography
		11.1 Alienation According to Basaglia
		11.2 Mental Alienation: “Il mondo degli esclusi”
		11.3 Social Alienation: Gli esclusi
			11.3.1 Hands
			11.3.2 Idleness
			11.3.3 Interaction and Action
			11.3.4 Intimacy, Abandonment, and Despair
			11.3.5 Visual Alienation
		11.4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12: “L’alienato nella cella è libero.” Mario Tobino Between Le libere donne di Magliano and Per le antiche scale
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Tobino and Basaglia: What Is Madness?
		12.3 The Captive Human Beasts of Magliano
		12.4 Conclusions: The Psychiatrist’s Gaze
		References
Correction to: The Years of Alienation in Italy
Index