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Bianca Garufi died in Rome on May 26, 2006. Born in Sicily on July 20, 1918, she fought in the ranks of the resistance to Nazi-Fascism. She went on to graduate in humanities and philosophy with a thesis on Jung. She worked for the Einaudi publishing house alongside Vittorini, Calvino and above all Cesare Pavese, collaborating with him on the creation of the "purple" series, which introduced Italians to a number of fundamental studies in anthropology and psychoanalysis. She wrote her first novel, Fuoco grande, again in collaboration with Pavese. It was followed, after Pavese’s death, by Il fossile and Rosa cardinale. Her poems were collected in a single volume in 1992, under the title Se non la vita. After studying under Ernst Bernhard and then Robert Grinnell, she began to practice as a Jungian analyst in the seventies, going on to become a training analyst at the AIPA, an activity that she continued up until just a few years ago. Her articles have been published in Spring, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, the Rivista di Psicologia Analitica and Anima. She also supervised the translation of numerous texts of analytical psychology into Italian, in particular works by James Hillman, Rafael López-Pedraza and Adolf Guggenbhül-Craig. She represented her association on the executive committee of the IAAP, where she also served as vice president.
Those who knew her well and were her friends recall with gratitude the generosity with which, drawing on her extensive and refined learning and her writing skills, she bestowed advice, suggested works to read and corrected the writing of the unpracticed; and the great sympathy and understanding that she displayed when people confided in her. She sowed seeds of creativity and wisdom in many, even if she was not always able, as so often happens with such people, to see the fruits of her invaluable work.
Cheung Chau, a small elongated island in the Yellow Sea about six miles south of Hong Kong, is so narrow in the middle that it can be crossed on foot in five minutes. “This was all once water” says one of the inhabitants. “Here, where we are standing, used to be water.” Apparently thousands of sandbags and rocks were piled up to unite both parts of the island. The man is pleased to have impressed his listener. The fact that a lighthouse now stands in Cheung Chau where once there was water seems, considering the usual natural course of events, unheard of.
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