This article explores how the Italian filmmaker and novelist Lorenza Mazzetti (-) has appropriated psychoanalysis. By looking at her novels and basically at her column of personal advice within the Communist weekly Vie Nuove during the 1960s, the article shows her increasing use of psychoanalytic insights as a form of defending a secular sexual morality and changes in gender relations as well as way of analysing the relationship between youth and politics. The article highlights Mazzetti's initial distrust towards psychoanalysis, and contrasts it with her increasing enthusiasm for psychoanalysis as a necessary companion of revolutionary activism. It takes Mazzetti's case as evidence of the receptivity towards psychoanalysis among Italian Communists.