Pinocchio Complex rewrites Oedipus as resistance to Freud. Collodi's text is a masterpiece of Tuscan Italian about which most famous Italian authors and psychoanalysts write. We delve into their appropriation of psychoanalysis, and examine the case of Pinocchio in clinical and linguistic terms. From Russia to Africa, Shostakovich to Jakobson, Pinocchio still frightens and fascinates.
