Cesare Musatti

Cesare Luigi Musatti (21 September 1897 - 21 March 1989) was an Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst. He was a leading figure for the first generation of Italian psychoanalysts. Musatti studied under Vittorio Benussi before becoming his assistant. Life Musatti's mother was a non-practicing Neapolitan Catholic, while father was Elia Musatti, a Venetan Jew who had been elected as a socialist deputy to the Italian parliament where he became a friend of Giacomo Matteotti. Musatti was neither baptised nor circumcised. During the fascist persecutions after the passage of Italy's racial laws, he managed to obtain a false baptisimal certificate from the Carmelites at Santa Maria in Traspontina. Though unreligious, he had his own children baptised according to the rites of the Waldensian Evangelical Church.

Selected works Trattato di psicoanalisi, Paolo Boringhieri, Torino