Giuseppina Antinucci is a Fellow of the BPAS and a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She divides her time between Milan and London, while also teaching widely in the U.K and abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Routledge's New Library of Psychoanalysis series, and is a member of the organizing committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, and has authored several articles and book chapters on the intersection of psychoanalysis and the arts.

Acknowledgements General Introduction 1. The work of culture, the being of nature 2. For a psychoanalytic perspective on the malaise of the culture 3. The universally human 4. Believe, do not believe me 5. Characters: fictional, realistic, verisimilar, plausible 6. Ideals in a world without fathers 7. Americanah: the blogger, the humorist 8. The intermittent epiphanies of trauma: The melancholic discourse of the trilingual poet Amelia Rosselli