On Paedophilia

ON PAEDOPHILIA ON PAEDOPHILIA Cosimo Schinaia Translated by Antonella Sansone Originally published as Pedofilia Pedofilie (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2001) English translation first published in 2010 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2010 by Cosimo Schinaia Original text © Cosimo Schinaia English translation © Antonella Sansone The rights of Cosimo Schinaia and Antonella Sansone to be identified respectively as the authors and the translator of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-589-5 Typeset by Vikatan Publishing Solutions (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com To Manuela, Jacopo and Lorenzo Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8: 32 Healthy mental growth seems to depend on truth as the living organism depends on food. If it is lacking or deficient the personality deteriorates. W.R. Bion, Transformations CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xi FOREWORD Donald Campbell xiii INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION xxi INTRODUCTION xxxi CHAPTER ONE Social and cultural aspects which foster paedophilic behaviour CHAPTER TWO Myth and paedophilia Clara Pitto and Cosimo Schinaia 1 31 vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER THREE Fairy tales and paedophilic fantasies Franca Pezzoni and Cosimo Schinaia CHAPTER FOUR Notes on the history of paedophilia CHAPTER FIVE Paedophilia in medical and psychiatric thought Paolo F. Peloso and Cosimo Schinaia CHAPTER SIX Psychoanalysis and paedophilia CHAPTER SEVEN Contributions to the definition and typology of paedophilic personalities and behaviours through fiction Paolo F. Peloso, Cosimo Schinaia and Giuseppina Tabò 57 89 115 139 165 CHAPTER EIGHT The paedophilic relationship 189 CHAPTER NINE A case of paedophilic perversion 219 CHAPTER TEN A case of paedophilic perversity Luisella Peretti and Cosimo Schinaia 235 CHAPTER ELEVEN The working group Luisella Peretti and Cosimo Schinaia 249 BIBLIOGRAPHY 265 INDEX 291 ACKNOWL EDGEMENTS I am grateful to Antonella Mancini for her valuable suggestions on the history of childhood in the Middle Ages, Uliano Lucas for helping me in the search for photographic texts, Giovanna Terminiello Rotondi for her passionate discussions on artists, and Aristo Ciruzzi for his cinematographic advice. I wish to acknowledge gratefully those who accurately read the original text of Pedofilia Pedofilie before it went to press: Anna Berardi, Stefano Bolognini, Franco De Masi, Marie Antoinette Ferroni, Costantino Gilardi, Gianni Guasto, and Alberto Lampignano. Special thanks to Francesco Barale for his beautiful preface to the Italian edition. I should like to thank Luiz Meyer for his encouragement, and Carlos Fishman and Paola Franciosi for their active interest in the publication of this book in English. I am especially gratef