Freud in Postwar Society

HESNARD, Angelo. Freud nella società del dopoguerra [Freud in Postwar Society]. Florence, Edizioni Macchia, 1951. 16mo, original ivory-colored publisher's wrappers. First Italian edition, translation by Leila Boletti for the 'Azione e Pensiero' series. Printed at E. Ariani and L'Arte della Stampa. 139 pp. Copy in fair condition: widespread foxing on boards and leaves, uniform yellowing, wrappers intact with wear at margins. Essay on psychoanalytic popularization published a few years after Freud's death, testimony to the Italian reception of Freudian thought in the early postwar period. Uncommon edition, of interest to collectors of the history of psychoanalysis and Italian scientific culture of the twentieth century.