# Cesare Musatti

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**Cesare Luigi Musatti** (21 September 1897 - 21 March 1989) was an Italian philosopher and [psychoanalyst](/source/Psychoanalysis). He was a leading figure for the first generation of Italian psychoanalysts.[1][2] Musatti studied under [Vittorio Benussi](/source/Vittorio_Benussi) before becoming his assistant.[2] Musatti edited the Italian edition of the works of [Sigmund Freud](/source/Sigmund_Freud).[3]

## Life

Musatti's mother was a non-practicing [Neapolitan](/source/Naples) Catholic, while father was Elia Musatti, a [Venetan Jew](/source/History_of_the_Jews_in_Venice) who had been elected as a socialist deputy to the Italian parliament where he became a friend of [Giacomo Matteotti](/source/Giacomo_Matteotti). Musatti was neither baptised nor circumcised. During the fascist persecutions after the passage of [Italy's racial laws](/source/Italian_racial_laws), he managed to obtain a false baptisimal certificate from the [Carmelites](/source/Carmelites) at [Santa Maria in Traspontina](/source/Santa_Maria_in_Traspontina). Though unreligious, he had his own children baptised according to the rites of the [Waldensian Evangelical Church](/source/Waldensian_Evangelical_Church).

## Selected works

- Trattato di psicoanalisi, Paolo Boringhieri, Torino

## References

1. David B. Baker (13 January 2012). [*The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives*](https://books.google.com/books?id=I5FoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA335). Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-19-971065-2.

1. [*International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis*](https://books.google.com/books?id=E7SHtAEACAAJ). Thomson Gale. 2006. pp. 1087–1088. ISBN 978-0-02-865924-4.

1. Samuel Arbiser & Jorge Schneider (17 April 2018). [*On Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety*](https://books.google.com/books?id=cBVWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT157). Taylor & Francis. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-429-91683-0.

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