Il viaggio di Elvio Fachinelli nel Portogallo post Rivoluzione dei Garofani

Incauto psicoanalista disperso in Portogallo

Resumen

Abstract   

What could Psychoanalysis and the Carnation Revolution have in common? I confess that, even I, before discovering an Italian psychoanalyst, Elvio Fachinelli, would never have linked Psychoanalysis and the Portuguese Revolution.

In this text, I present Elvio Fachinelli and his vision of Revolution in general, with the contribution of authors who knew him, some younger than him, but who lived through the effects of 1968 and the social revolutions of the following years.

The history of the journal L’erba voglio, essential to clarify the editorial support in which Fachinelli published his travel diary in post-revolutionary Portugal, is illustrated here, revealing the dynamics of the 1970s in Italy and how much the Portuguese Revolution intrigued young Europeans.

The connections between Italy and Portugal that emerge even from the graphics of the journal is another theme I will address, to finally comment on the individual and collective analysis of the Carnation Revolution that Fachinelli makes in his travel diary, as a “reckless psychoanalyst lost in Portugal.”