Inextricable Apeira

Luisa Mele

I would like to turn to the past like the Angelus Novus painted by Paul Klee, looking at it with the awareness of a wild wind driving us towards the future (1). For this reason I choose to tell the history of analytic psychodrama in Italy not in an “objective” chronological order what, on the other hand, is possible to find in several texts (2 ), but through this “micro-history” which I am able to recreate today after that I have experienced it for about forty years. At the beginning, it is a story taking place between Rome and Paris geographical spaces connected by a train or a plane, but spaces of mind, too, where theories, methods and techniques met and became a job and, so, a destiny, my own destiny. The story started at the end of the Sixties. It was in 1967, in fact that Gennie and Paul Lemoine, who already worked in Paris as charter members of the Society of studies of practical and theoretic Psychodrama (S. E. P. T.), started organising therapy, training and supervision groups in Italy , too. In 1972 the Lemoines will issue a text which is still today fundamental: “ Psychodrama . Moreno 's psychodrama reread in the light of Freud and Lacan”. It is a brilliant synthesis of their theories.

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