This study is dedicated to Marco Levi Bianchini, the bold, late-positivist psychiatrist who was one of the pioneering supporters of Freudian science in Italy. On June 7 1925, he founded the first Italian Psychoanalytic Society in Teramo. The reconstruction of Levi Bianchini's personal and scientific experiences is based on the mining of archival material and on an examination of the now classic journals that he created in the 1910s and '20s. This article illustrates his adventurous editorial industriousness in promoting Freudian thinking, and the various institutional developments that led to the construction of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society in the Abruzzi region. Also discussed is his complex and conflictual relationship with Edoardo Weiss, who revived the lifeless society of Teramo, reestablishing the Italian Psychoanalytic Society in Rome in 1932.