Plot

A series written by Ottavio Rosati and Alfredo Antonaros for Raisat from an original idea by Rosati and [name/nm0686087] conducted with Teto and "Nanda" a voracious squirrel. Produced by Rai Sat Gambero Rosso. The surrealistic/comic myth of the series is that Sigmund Freud has reincarnated in a Cacatoa Alba and that, to purify his karma learning the theories of the psychoanalist Melanie Klein. Rosati, must take him to markets and restaurants where passers-by ask him questions about food. Rosati will respond through the Kleinian model, citing clinical cases and pieces of film, in a studio with cages and pets. Here the cacatoa wanders in the company of the blue-headed Amazon Miss. With them there is also the female squirrel Nanda, inside a cage set with pine branches. Her likeness with the Americanist [name/nm0686087] close friend of Ottavio, strikes Igles Corelli and Bruno Barbieri the famous chefs of the Gambero Rosso who bring her enormous quantities of fruit. The beautiful squirrel looks insatiable. Rosati suspects that Nanda secretly takes the fruit to a secret lover in her nest. Ottavio Rosati presents the subject of Il Pappafreud to Rai in the form of a comic story: Teto is the Cacatoa Alba president of my school of Pet Therapy. The teaching committee consists of an Amazon (Miss), a Krameris (Tweety), a rabbit (Angora) and a squirrel Callosciurus (Panza del Ventre). The secretary of the school is my friend Fernanda Pivano, the famous Italian writer and translator from Hemingway. From my last trip to Vienna my beloved Cacatoa gets agitated and talks in his sleep. The veterinarian observes that Teto speaks German. He administers him a homeopathic medicine but in vain: the disorder continues, even worse. I'm very worried. What to do? [name/nm0686087] invites me to go by train to Siberia in search of a shaman specialized in birds. I look for and find the most expensive: he accepts the case, takes Teto and goes with him to the smoke hut. I spend the night in the cold, dying of cold and looking at the tent from which emerge drums, fires and vapors. At dawn the Medicine Man comes out and makes a shocking revelation: my parrot is invaded by the spirit of an Austrian father of Psychoanalysis who fled to London where he had no respect for an important sorceress. Teto invaded by Freud? Such as? When? Why? I do not like this story. And then why does it involve my quiet existence? What have I got to do with Freud? The shaman does not answer. He asks and gets a thousand dollars and disappears into the woods. I'm back in Europe. On the train a suspect emerges: and if the city was London and the sorceress was the famous analyst Melanie Klein who discovered breast envy?

Teto does not play or make drawings. He eats only sausage and drink only beer. At night, he continues to fidget. Halloween arrives. [name/nm0686087] and I have lunch at home with friends and pets. At the moment of the appetizer, someone knocks on the door. Who will be? Two Tibetan monks bow and donate a box of cigars. Teto shouts, flies to the box and takes a cigar. Miss and Titti peep. The squirrel shakes its tail. The rabbit trembles. Nanda adds two seats to the table. I immediately tell the story of the shaman. A monk caresses the rabbit, the other completes the Siberian revelation: Freud, in his life has made the mistake of believing that the strongest instinct is sex rather than hunger. He reincarnated in Teto to expiate the crime of having turned his worst pupils into parrots that repeat his words without understanding them. I am now the guardian of this Sacred Bird. I must instruct him on the new frontiers of psychoanalysis, starting from Klein's formulas relating to breast, milk and various orality. After the training, I will have to carry around my Pappafreud for markets, bars, restaurants to answer people's questions about the joy of food and drink. Only at the end of this pilgrimage my parrot will be freed from the spirit of Freud and will return to play like a simple cacatoa. The two monks leave full of Italian cakes, wishing peace and joy. Was it all a dream? I just closed the door from the library Miss and Tweety with a beak pull down a book of Klein: book "Envy and Gratitude." It looks like a sign! The phone rings: it is my friend Alfredo Antonaros, the writer, who invites me and Fernanda for Christmas at his house. On the table a Sacher Torte suddenly materializes with a red shrimp in the center. I shudder. Teto throws away the cigar. [name/nm0686087] looks out the window, turns pale and shows me a writing appeared in the sky: "The Magician Melania Does not Live More Here". I feel happy and smile. Everything is clear.