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Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee

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Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee

Alexandra Tomasi, Princess of Lampedusa (nee Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee) (13 November 1894 in Nice ? 22 June 1982 in Palermo ), [1] known as "Licy", [2] was an Italian and Baltic German psychoanalyst . [3] She was the daughter of Italian mezzo-soprano and violinist Alice Barbi [3] (1858-1948 [4] ) and Baron Boris Wolff-Stomersee  [ ru ] [3] (1850?1917 [5] ).

Raised in St. Petersburg , where her father was a high official in the court of Imperial Russia , [3] in 1918 she married the Baltic German Baron Andre Pilar von Pilchau (1891?1960), an international banker. [3] Pilar was gay, and the nature of the marriage is unclear. [2] In the early 1920s she underwent psychoanalysis in Berlin with Felix Boehm , another Baltic German from Riga. [3] Over the next several years she traveled between her residence in Latvia (Stomersee, [2] now known as St?meriena Palace ) and Berlin, where she studied psychoanalysis at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute . [3] As a psychoanalyst, she was in the tradition of Karl Abraham . [3]

Meanwhile, her mother had remarried, to Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta , who was Italian ambassador to the UK from 1922 to 1927. [6] On a 1925 visit to London, Alexandra met Tomasi's nephew, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , later author of The Leopard . The two met at various places in Europe over the next few years. [7] In 1932, she obtained a divorce/annulment of her marriage to Pilar [8] and married Tomasi di Lampedusa. [3] [9] She, Pilar, and Tomasi all seem to have been on quite friendly terms throughout, and apparently scandalized some of Tomasi's relatives by remaining so. [10]

Tomasi did not tell his family about the marriage until it was a fait accompli . [11] They first lived with Tomasi's mother at the Lampedusa Palace in Palermo, but the incompatibility between the two women soon drove her back to Latvia. [12] [13] Through the rest of the 1930s, Tomasi lived largely in Palermo and she variously in Riga or Stomersee; typically she made an annual winter visit to Palermo and he made a summer visit to the Baltic. [14] She began practicing psychoanalysis in 1936. [1]

The vicissitudes of World War II finally drove her from the Baltic to Rome [3] (where her sister Lolette lived [15] ) and finally to Sicily. For the duration of the war in Italy, she and Tomasi lived mainly in Ficarra , sometimes with his mother, sometimes not. After the war (and the destruction of the Lampedusa Palace) the couple rented a place in Palermo. [16] Her mother-in-law died in 1946, after which she and her husband consistently lived together [17] until his death in 1957. [3]

She was instrumental in the reorganisation of the Italian psychoanalytic society (SPI) after World War II and was the president of the SPI from 1954 to 1959. [1] She was one of post-war Italy's first training analysts (based in Palermo); Francesco Corrao  [ it ] was one of her students. She served on the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi, established in 1955 [3]

Her 1946 lecture "Sviluppi della diagnostica e tecnica psicoanalitica" ("Developments in psychoanalytic diagnostics and technique") introduced the concept of borderline personality disorder . Her 1950 lecture at the Second National Congress of the SPI, "L'aggressivita nelle perversioni" ("Aggression in perversions") built on the Freudian concept of the death drive ; in that lecture, she developed the theoretical foundation of aggressive narcissism , based on a case of necrophilia . In the early 1970s, she presented a talk about a patient of hers who thought he was a werewolf . This talk introduced the term "identificatory introjection " based on Melanie Klein 's concept of " projective identification ". She continued her private practice into her later years, as well seeing her late husband's works through to publication. [3] She died in 1982 in Palermo. [1]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c d "Alessandra Wolff Stomersee Tomasi di Palma, princess of Lampedusa" . ASPI ? Archivio Storico della psicologia italiana (in Italian). University of Milano-Bicocca . Retrieved 2023-06-30 .
  2. ^ a b c Gilmour, David (1988). The Last Leopard: A life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa . New York: Pantheon. p. 60. ISBN   0679401830 .
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brigitte Nolleke. "Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon" (in German) . Retrieved 2023-06-30 .
  4. ^ Commire, Anne, ed. (2002). "Barbi, Alice (1862?1948)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia . Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN   0-7876-4074-3 . Archived from the original on 2016-09-11 – via HighBeam Research.
  5. ^ "Wolff, Boris Frh. v. (1850?1917)" . BBLd ? Baltisches Biografisches Lexikon digital . Baltische Historische Kommission (BHK) . Retrieved 2023-05-30 .
  6. ^ Gilmour, op. cit. , pp. 46, 59
  7. ^ Gilmour, pp. 33
  8. ^ Gilmour, op cit. , p. 61 refers to the dissolution as a "divorce and annulment."
  9. ^ Gilmour, op cit. , p. 61
  10. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 60, 64, 69?70, 98?99, 104
  11. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 61, 63, 66
  12. ^ Alessandra Tomasi di Lampedusa at psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  13. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 67?68
  14. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 69
  15. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 103
  16. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , p. 83
  17. ^ Gilmour, op. cit , pp. 86

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