CIPA\u2019s Southern Institute (Istituto Meridionale) marks the anniversary of Federico Fellini\u2019s death with a one-day conference on Saturday October 3.<\/p>\n
The conference grows out of ARAS\u2019s own publication on Fellini, and takes up a relationship that runs deep in Jungian history. Fellini\u2019s connection to analytical psychology began in earnest around 1960, when, in the grip of a creative crisis while making 8\u00bd, he began analysis with Ernst Bernhard, the German-born psychiatrist who had fled Nazi Germany for Rome and become the founder of Jungian analysis in Italy. On Bernhard\u2019s advice, Fellini began recording and illustrating his dreams from 1960 onward, eventually amassing the notebooks published posthumously as Il Libro dei Sogni (The Book of Dreams), a private companion, in its way, to Jung\u2019s own Red Book. Fellini later visited Jung\u2019s tower at Bollingen himself, an encounter he described to Aldo Carotenuto as leaving him with the impression of \u201csomething modeled in clay,\u201d at once monumental and childlike.<\/p>\n
The day\u2019s programme reflects this legacy directly, with several contributors to the ARAS publication presenting their work. Caterina Vezzoli opens with a look at Fellini\u2019s Satyricon, followed by Salvo Pollicina on \u201cFellini the Eskimo.\u201d Gabriele Ajello turns to the prophetic language of dreams across cinema, storytelling, and artificial intelligence, before Maurizio Nicolosi examines the sacred, religion, and faith in Fellini\u2019s work, and Livia Di Stefano closes with a paper on Juliet of the Spirits and the search for the anima.<\/p>\n