| Cesare Musatti | |
| Native Name Lang: | it |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Dolo, Italy |
| Death Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Citizenship: |  Italy |
| Fields: | Psychoanalysis |
| Alma Mater: | University of Padua |
Cesare Luigi Musatti (21 September 1897 - 21 March 1989) was an Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst. He was a leading figure for the first generation of Italian psychoanalysts.[1] [2] Musatti studied under Vittorio Benussi before becoming his assistant.Musatti edited the Italian edition of the works of Sigmund Freud.[3]
Musatti's mother was a non-practicing Neapolitan Catholic, while father was Elia Musatti, a Venetan Jew who had been elected as a socialist deputy to the Italian parliament where he became a friend of Giacomo Matteotti. Musatti was neither baptised nor circumcized. During the fascist persecutions after the passage of Italy's racial laws, he managed to obtain a false baptisimal certificate from the Carmelites at Santa Maria in Traspontina. Though unreligious, he had his own children baptised according to the rites of the Waldensian Evangelical Church.