PSICHOLOGY OF ITALIAN COMICS
Italian site dedicate to everybody interested in the personality of
comics characters
(Site under translation) Go to Italian version
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Bibliography:
Psychology of comics (A
.Imbasciati, C. Castelli, 1975)
Who is scared for Lucy von Pelt?
Psychoanalysis and comics. (M. Mongai, 1983)
Notes of psychology of comics (M.
Minelli, 1992)
Note: all the comic books named in
this site are italian; if you’re studying or you’ve studied comic books in your
country and you like to talk about psychological reaserch about comics, write
to: ugoarancione@libero.it
Defense mechanisms in comic Literature (By E.
Napoletano)
In Disney comic stories, in the cities where Donald Duck and Mickey
Mouse live, small characters (Mickey Mouse; Huey, Dewey and Louie, exc.) are
clever and always ready, but big ones are unable (Policeman helped by Mickey),
miser (Uncle Scrooge), lazy (Donald Duck), dummy (Mickey’s friend), indolent
(Fethry Duck). So kids can satisfy their unconscious desire, which consists in
detracting and teasing adults, taking their place.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ABOUT
ITALIAN COMICS has almost been made about five themes :
1)
General research about reading comics
2)
Research
about italian children’s and teens’ favourite characters
3)
Research about understanding
and effects in reading comics
5)
Psichoanalytical profiles of characters
Minelli(1992) found out 16 kinds of COMICS GENRES, and he said that each
one is related to the structure of personality of readers and their most
frequent fantasies:
1)
Comic books for smaller children
4)
Funny black
5)
Black
8)
Horror and mistery
adventures
10)
Science fiction adventures
13)
War adventures
16)
Erotic
During comics reading, Ego acts many
MECHANISMS OF DEFENCE, described by S. Freud. Let’s see the most
frequent ones:
2)
Projection
3)
Shifting
4)
Idealisation
5)
Denial
6)
Splitting