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The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual, 2007: Freud After All is a collection of essays representing the views and interests of many of today's leading Italian psychoanalysts. Edited by Patrizio Campanile and published in 2007 by Borla Edizioni in Rome, it contains articles selected from those published in the Rivista di Psicoanalisi (the best-known Italian psychoanalytic journal and the official journal of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana), Volume 52, 2006. Unlike the standard fare for the Rivista di Psicoanalisi, whose topics generally reflect the diverse spectrum of interest in contemporary psychoanalysis, this annual's content is unusual since it is mainly devoted to reflections on Freud's work, in celebration of the sesquicentennial of his birth. The articles have been translated into English and are published here as the inaugural volume of the Italian Psychoanalytic Annual, with subsequent volumes planned for publication each year.
Prior to World War II, there was limited knowledge of Freud or of psychoanalysis in Italy. This is surprising since Italy and Austria are neighbors, and also because Freud traveled to Italy many times. In part this lack of awareness was the result of the opposition that psychoanalysis encountered from Italian Fascism and from the Roman Catholic Church.
A notable exception to this state of affairs was the early enthusiasm for psychoanalysis demonstrated by the psychiatrist Marco Levi Bianchini of Naples. And the most prominent Italian analyst of this period was Edoardo Weiss of Trieste, who was analyzed by Federn and became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1913.