The Years of Alienation in Italy: Factory and Asylum Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of L

1. Introduction: Social and Mental Alienation in Italy between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead (Alessandra Diazzi and Alvise Sforza Tarabochia)Part I. Spaces of Alienation2. Into the De/Construction of the Psychiatric Space (Emanuela Sorbo)3. Doctor in Slaughter: Emilio De Rossignoli's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Fabio Camilletti)Part II. Workers at Olivetti4. Volponi-Ottieri-Olivetti and the Ills of Homo industrialis: Returning to a 'Civiltà della natura' as a Questionable Antidote to the Urban-Industrial Malaise (David Albert Best)5. "Sentirsi Scorticati Vivi": The Theme of Alienation in Ottiero Ottieri's Works (Fabrizio Di Maio)6. Paolo Volponi's Memoriale: Industry between Alienation and Utopia (Tiziano Toracca)Part III. Psychoanalysis and Alienation7. Alienation and Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on Italy in the Years of the Economic Miracle (Alessandra Diazzi)8. Psychoanalysis in Milan in the Age of Dis-Alienation: The Case of Elvio Fachinelli (Pietro Barbetta)9. From the Factory to the Asylum...and Back: A Lacanian Perspective on the Cinematic Representation of Alienation in Elio Petri's La classe operaia va in paradiso (Luca Di Gregorio)Part IV. The Asylum10. Manicomiche: Madness, Language and the Dismantling of the Asylum in Gianni Celati's Comiche (Michele Ronchi Stefanati)11. Mental, Social and Visual Alienation in D'Alessandro's Photography (Alvise Sforza Tarabochia)12. 'L'alienato nella cella è libero.' Mario Tobino between Le libere donne di Magliano and Per le antiche scale (Wissia Fiorucci)