The decisive encounter for the direction taken by the newly-formed Astrolabio was that with Ernst Bernhard, who introduced the Jungian tradition of analytical psychology to Italy. Before he came to Italy from Germany in 1936 to avoid racial persecution, Bernhard had had a Freudian psychoanalytical training with Fenichel and Radó, followed by a Jungian analysis with Jung himself in Zurich. Having escaped persecution in Italy too, he remained in Rome until his death. It was in 1946, through a friend who was in analysis with Bernhard, that Ubaldini got to know the Jungian “proto-analyst”, and in the context of looking for a new publishing area, entrusted him with managing a “series of texts and documents on depth psychology” under the name Psiche e coscienza [Psyche and consciousness]. Ubaldini would say: “His was a truly effective editorship of a series, of a kind that I would not have been capable of by myself; I would not have known how to handle it like him, and moreover he had been a pupil of both Freud and Jung and knew everyone in that world.”


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