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Franco Fornari with his vast, prolific scientific production is well-known to us and every psycho-analyst grieves over his premature death. Less known (or perhaps less acceptable?) to analysts was that part of his work which kept psycho-analysis under pressure on the institutional front in cultural political circles, particularly university politics. Fornari brought psycho-analysis into the lecture rooms, not merely as an educational subject, but as a strategy aimed at lecturers who were also psycho-analysts (something which is not too common in Italian universities) with a precise cultural policy directed at public institutions. Indeed, he put forward the notion of creating public structures (see his “Polipsichico” project, being equivalent to a polyclinic or polytechnic) which were not just to be therapeutic welfare services, but more importantly they were also to be instruments for reasearch and psychosocial assistance. In his project, psycho-analysis would have been used as a service for community use: this was intended not so much as a chance for everybody to have access to therapeutic aid, but mainly as directly programmed social and political benefits. With its research prospects as emphasized by him, psycho-analysis was to have become an instrument, not so much for the use of those individuals requesting it, as for the civil community, embracing all human beings.
Fornari was, moreover, politically familiar on the general cultural scene, for having founded a centre of psycho-analytical research into war, peace and the problems of Mankind's agressivity in a critical age for the whole world - that of the atom bomb and of the confrontation between the two nuclear blocks, USA versus USSR.