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A life is a journey, as stated in the opening tercet of Dante's Divine comedy and similarly intuited earlier by the author of the Lurianic Kabbalah. This charming book is a glimpse into the psychoanalytic itinerary of Dr Franco Borgogno, a noted Italian psychoanalyst, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytical Associations, founder of the Ferenczi Society, and Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at Turin University. It is presented in the form of an interview with Canadian Christopher (Kit) Fortune, humanities professor at Vancouver Simon Fraser University and historian of psychoanalysis and of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. So far, it is available only in Italian. However, English readers can now read as a companion volume Borgogno's Psychoanalysis as a journey, published in London by Open Gate Press.
As noted by Endre Koritar in his Preface, this is role-reversal time: Fortune assumes the role of the analyst, and Borgogno is the analysand who bares his soul to the interviewer, describing the story of his psychoanalytic itinerary, his two analyses, his dreams and desires, and his ups and his downs on the road of discovery and self-discovery. And the journey is a sign of our times: in his personal evolution, Borgogno oscillates between Freud and Ferenczi, between the old classical model and the ascendant interpersonal approach, as animated by some other past fellow travelers, such as Klein, Bion, and Winnicott, and such contemporary collaborators and companions as Ferro, Bion Talamo, Bolognini, and Vallino.
The lively exchanges between the two interlocutors not only reflect their mutually empathic collaboration, but also document their humanism, life experience, and wisdom. They set an example that deserves to be emulated.