ABSTRACT
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the encounter between cinema and psychology was doubtless facilitated by the fact that both lay within the ambit of modernity. 1 Between the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the new century, cinema established itself as the most widespread performance and communicative phenomenon in the Western world. During that same period, psychology, psychiatry, and neurology affirmed their importance on the scientific and academic level. Thus, it is not surprising that cinema immediately attracted the interest of disciplines involved in the study of the psyche, even in Italy.
