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La figura di Justinus Kerner e la sua opera più famosa, La veggente di Prevorst, vengono spesso citate da Carl Gustav Jung. L'analista svizzero si interessò a questo caso clinico di possessione durante gli anni dei suoi studi universitari e nei primi anni della sua professione, quando si occupava di schizofrenia e praticava la psichiatria. Successivamente, quando aveva già formulato la sua teoria sulle personalità, ritornò a citare La veggente di Prevorst anche in maniera estesa, come fece durante i seminari del 1933-34 al Politecnico di Zurigo. Nel lavoro di Kerner Jung vedeva un antesignano della propria opera. Scopo di questo lavoro è presentare La veggente di Prevorst, spesso ricordata nel solo campo della parapsicologia, come scrittura di un caso clinico in senso moderno e, soprattutto, evidenziare come Jung sia stato influenzato da questo esempio di caso clinico proto-psicoanalitico.

Dealing, in clinical practice, with easily hypnotizable subjects is very useful, given the abundant use of hypnosis in various area of health care. This paper try to understand if and how is possible to increase the hypnotic susceptibility through a program called Carleton Skill Training Program (CSTP), a program oriented to low hypnotic susceptibility subjects. It investigates the theory underlying the program in order to further explicate the purposes and essential steps that make it up. Finally we debate the fundamental components of the CSTP as well as have been identified by several scholars who have studied it in order to understand the reason for his evident success.

In the historical series of La Guerra Carlista, Ramón del Valle-Inclán offers a literary translation of the last war between liberals and Carlists (1872-76), presented as the collective defence of traditional Spain. Valle-Inclán manipulates the story without betraying it, in order to render the immediacy of war from a popular perspective, that at the eyes of don Ramón illustrates the most genuine and idealist side of Carlism, represented by guerrilla, bands and the civil population helping them wholeheartedly. The contrast between liberals and Carlists, an element common to all novels of the cycle, is mainly supported by the comments of a narrator whose judgements and commentaries on characters and situations reveal his preference for Carlists.

The debate on monetary reform in the Italian Enlightenment Age was initiated by Carlo Antonio Broggia, a ‘self-taught’ Neapolitan merchant, who in 1743 pub-lished the Treatise on taxes, money, and the policy of public health, the main trea-tise on the subject published in Italy before Galiani’s Della Moneta and the Nea-politan abbot himself recognized its importance, considering Broggia the first to promote om Italy the study of a very useful and noble science. Broggia proposed a complex monetary stabilization program, basing it on a detailed theoretical analysis, breaking with the tradition of the monetary writers, who throughout the seventeenth century, prompted by the serious disorders besetting the Viceroyalty, had dealt with technical issues, without the will or the ability to produce an organic analytical contribution. In his Treatise, the Neapolitan merchant tackles the prob-lem of the stability of a bimetallic monetary system, troubled by the continuous modification of the commercial relationship between gold and silver, resorting pre-cisely to the maneuver of tariffs (i.e. of imaginary money), in order to sterilize the fluctuations of the bimetallic ratio. Despite the high level of Broggia’s contribution, his advice was not accepted and in the Kingdom of Naples the monetary stabiliza-tion policy failed completely. As a money doctor ante litteram Broggia acted in adverse circumstances openly opposing the policy of some ministers. Remaining unheard, he addressed the prince and public opinion directly, suffering the most drastic consequences. However, his ideas spread widely and were also welcomed by intellectuals such as Muratori who played a decisive role in the renewal of Ital-ian culture in the mid-eighteenth century.

- Carlo Borghero, Mitologie cartesiane, Le Lettere, Firenze 2023, pp. XXVIII-­506, € 35,00.
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The essay reviews some new editions of Cattaneo’s texts (Dell’insurrezione di Milano nel 1848, Notizie naturali e civili su la Lombardia, La città considerata come principio ideale delle istorie italiane, Interdizioni israelitiche, Scritti su la Lombardia, Lettere scelte, Del pensiero come principio d’economia publica). From these works Cattaneo’s anti-elitism comes out clearly. His pragmatism and his being an Enlightenment thinker are influenced by a strong belief in popular sovereignty which made of him a radical, even though he had a anti-cesaristic attitude. As clear is the difference between his federalism of democratic origin and the « ethnic populist» belief in self-determination of the current stage of globalization. His idea of regional decentralization was part of the project to promote national modernization in a European framework.

Alla metà degli anni 1830 l’attenta lettura di un libro al tempo assai fortunato di Edward Lytton Bulwer sull’Inghilterra e gli Inglesi, spinse il giovane Cattaneo a scrivere, in inglese, un lungo e impegnativo saggio, da lui intitolato An unenglish Appendix to Mr. B.’s England and the English, che rimase tuttavia incompiuto e che poté vedere la luce solo alla metà del secolo scorso. Il presente articolo si propone di mettere a fuoco l’influenza esercitata dalla lettura del summenzionato libro, e delle appendici scritte in via anonima da J.S. Mill, in una fase cruciale della formazione del pensiero storico e filosofico di Cattaneo.