ABSTRACT
It was the era of the psychoanalytic misconception, both Catholic and Communist at once, which led Pasolini to write the prayer in Poesia in forma di rosa. The representation of the traumatizing parent is split in two — an idealized side and a persecutory side — and the child cannot use them simultaneously. A firm sense of attachment is crucial in order to provide the child with a 'secure basis' for exploring the parent's mind. In this way, he/she not only gets to know the mind of the Other, but also has the opportunity to find him/herself in it, because the parent strives, in his/her turn, to understand and comprehend his/her child's mental states. At the beginning of the 1990s, Jessica Benjamin interwove feminism, intersubjectivity, and gender, and taught something new to psychoanalysts, many of whom had only been able, until then, to see mothers as schizophrenogenic women or as devoted extensions, instruments at the baby's disposal.
