The ‘Dreams’ of Cesare Augusto Levi: a Pre-Freud Interpretation
Authors
E. Turba
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
C. Brillante
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Stefano Arieti
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Keywords:
Dream , Hypnosis , Sleep
Abstract
On 25th February, 1887 Cesare Augusto Levi, a poet and archaeologist born in Venice in 1856, held a conference on dreams at the “Ateneo di Venezia”. The conference deals with the nature of dreams, with the unconscious, with hypnosis and magnetism. Levi advocates a socially oriented version of psychiatry and he may be considered as a forerunner of Freud’s theories.
