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The Rivista di Psicoanalisi, published quarterly, is the journal of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, formed in 1925. The journal was established in 1932 as the Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi; its founder was Edoardo Weiss , also considered “the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy” (Castiello d'Antonio 2012, p. 492).
A native of Trieste, Weiss studied medicine in Vienna, where he joined the Viennese Psychoanalytic Association. He was analyzed by Paul Federn (Bolognini , p. 203), to whom he had been introduced by Freud (Castiello d'Antonio 2012, p. 492). With his first psychoanalytic publication in the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse in 1913 and his subsequent writings, he was influential in determining the early course of psychoanalysis in Italy (Pirillo 2013). However, after the Fascist regime instigated stringent racial laws in 1938, Weiss, a Jew, was forced to leave Italy and emigrated to the United States (as did many other Italian analysts during this period). Weiss settled in Chicago and became a colleague of Franz Alexander's.1
Due to Fascist oppression, the Rivista di Psicoanalisi had had to cease operations even before Weiss's emigration. It was only in 1954—eight years after the reconstruction of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, which had also been disbanded—that the Rivista was reestablished by Cesare Musatti , who continued to serve both as the journal's Editor and as President of the Italian Society until 1971.2 Musatti was the first psychoanalyst to translate and publish Freud's entire opus into Italian, a project that was completed only in 1980 (Giuliani 2009, p. 318).