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Plateau & Psychoanalysis |
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was especially fond of the Lavarone plateau, where he first went in 1904 when touring Trentino and Northern Italy.
He liked the place so much that he decided to visit it again and did so in 1906, 1907 and after the First World War, in 1923. hese stays on the plateau are amply reported by his biographer Ernst Jones, who describes Freud’s love of the absolute tranquillity of the area, and his long excursions and meditations on the lakeshore.
Gradiva Study Centre
The rapport between Sigmund Freud and Lavarone and consequently between Lavarone and psychoanalysis led to the setting up of the Gradiva Study Centre for Applied Psychoanalysis, founded at Lavarone in 1990 with the participation of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, the municipalities, the Plateau Tourist Offices and the Italian Psychoanalysis Society. Its purpose is to study and develop subjects linked to psychoanalysis, through courses, conferences and debates.
Cesare Musatti
Just when the great Viennese scholar was staying at Lavarone, Serrada was host to a sickly child who was to become one of the greatest pursuers of his work: Cesare Musatti. If Freud’s stay at Lavarone was in the end limited to certain periods, Musatti had a long-lasting and passionate relationship with Serrada, interrupted only by his death. n 1982 he was made honorary citizen of the Magnifica Comunità di Folgaria. |
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