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Lucio Russo, a prominent Italian psychoanalyst, has undertaken a timely study of human identity through what he calls an exploratory journey of the human condition: life and death, illusion and reality, love and hate. He has investigated the formation and the vicissitudes of identity by applying the psychoanalytic theoretical instruments and method to literary experiences that are viewed as exemplary of the current era, and by creating an exciting dialogue among psychoanalytic theoreticians, literary authors, and philosophers.
The product of Russo's exploration is Destini delle identitè (Destinies of the Identities), a 240-page book published in Italian by Borla in 2009. This book is written with penetrating precision, mastery, and love of psychoanalysis and literature, and is dense with rich and profound insights and captivating illustrations. Informed by an undeniably Freudian drive theory perspective, it brings together well-known classical theories with recent insights, such as those of Green and de M'Uzan. But it remains embedded in exclusively European and British theoretical soil.