Psychoanalysis for a new humanism: Embodied testimony, connectedness, memory and forgiveness for a “persistence of the human”

Clara Mucci is full professor of clinical psychology at the University of Chieti (Italy). She previously served as full professor of English Literature and Shakespearean drama. A psychoanalytic psychotherapist for the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SIPP), and in private practice in Milan and Pescara, she is the author of several monographs on English literature, Shakespeare and literary theory (Liminal personae, 1995; Tempeste, 1998; Il teatro delle streghe, 2001; A memoria di donna, 2004; I corpi di Elisabetta. Sessualita’ potere e poetica della cultura al tempo di Shakespeare, 2009) and on trauma and the Holocaust (Il dolore estremo, 2008; Beyond individual and collective trauma. Psychoanalytic treatment, intergenerational transmission and the dynamics of forgiveness, 2013; Trauma e perdono, 2014). She is co-author with G. Craparo of Unrepressed unconscious, implicit memory and clinical work (Karnac, 2016). She is reliable for the coding and administration of Adult Attachment Interview and Reflective Functioning. She was fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute in New York, directed by Otto Kernberg, in 2005/2006, and in the same year was visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.
Correspondence: Clara Mucci, Via Vespucci, 58a, 65126 Pescara, Italy. E-mail: