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Cesare Pavese, the premier twentieth-century poet from Turin, a place of multicultural influences, encouraged the first Italian publications of Freud's work. In his poem “Ancestors” (Pavese 1998) his reflections on coming of age might aptly describe one liberatory arc of analytic aspiration:
Stunned by the world, I reached an agewhen I threw punches at air and cried to myself.Listening to the speech of women and men,not knowing how to respond, it's not fun.But this too has passed: I'm not alone anymore,and if I still don't know how to respond,I don't need to. Finding myself, I found company.
The Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary (IRED) is the inspiration of the Italian psychoanalyst Stefano Bolognini and was spawned and cultivated during his tenure as IPA president. Like his compatriot Pavese, Bolognini knows the cacophony of those speaking in different—sometimes discordant—tongues, as well as the emancipatory potential of immersion in a mélange of cultural and linguistic traditions. “We know that different countries and different languages can create … unexpected and new evolutions in the psychoanalytic field that are enriching and can be at the same time shocking for the different communities.”
Reflecting on his initial motivation to develop IRED, Bolognini was aware of the impact of historical events. “The dramatic and tragic migrations of the Second World War,” he tells us, “were, paradoxically, a
facilitating factor for the diffusion of psychoanalysis. Yet, when I began to attend the IPA congresses in the early 1980s, after European, North American, or Latin American analysts presented plenaries, outcries of ‘This is not psychoanalysis!‘ could be heard, that expressed a feeling akin to alienation.“