Jacob Levi Moreno

Jacob Levi Moreno as director and actor is known for Psychodrame d'un mariage (1964) and Le Psychodrame (1956) with Roberto Rossellini: the French experiment of Psicocinema that inspired the italian Da storia nasce storia (1991). In the history of psychiatry and dynamic psychology Moreno is a genious. He plays a fundamental role on a par with Freud, Jung, Klein or Binswanger, marking the passage from the concept of intra-personal conflict between various parts of the single psyche (like Ego, Unconscious, Super Ego) to the idea of inter-personal conflict between a subject and members of a family or of a group. From the cultural point of view, Moreno prophesied the advent of the Internet, with its concept of Networks and Social Atom. His concept of Psychocinema proposed that the television broadcast of a Psychodrama can infinitely increases the participation of a group of spectators. Moreno proposed the spontaneous staging of a story with a direction in the style of neo-realism of Rossellini and De Sica where the most important factor is not the script or the production but Life and the Spontaneity factor. He was born in Bucharest from a family of Jewish traders, originally from Turkey and emigrated to Romania. Moving to Vienna, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian empire of Francesco Giuseppe I, he found himself immersed in a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual reality, imbued with an effervescent artistic and theatrical vitality. The notes on his childhood are rich in details, among which his passion for singing and his ability to express himself in various languages, including the Judeo-Spanish language, emerges. He moved to Vienna in 1905, where he studied medicine, mathematics and philosophy. In 1912 he attended a lecture by Freud, to which he said: "Well, Dr. Freud, I start where you end up. You meet people in the artificial setting of your office. I meet them in the streets and in their homes, in their environment. You analyzes their dreams. I give them the courage to dream again. You analyzes them and breaks them down. I allow them to act their conflicting roles and help them put together the split parts of their lives."