Elena Gigante

Elena Gigante is an Italian Jungian psychoanalyst, neuroscientist, and sound artist who holds a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from Sapienza University of Rome, where she researched sound motion perception and brain plasticity induced by musical training. She also holds a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Sapienza with distinction and a diploma in piano from the T. Schipa Conservatory of Lecce. Qualified as a Jungian psychoanalyst in 2018, she is an ordinary member of the Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica (CIPA) and the International Association for Analytical Psychology, serving in supervisory and training analyst capacities. Gigante maintains a private clinical practice in Lecce and lectures in Phenomenology of Art at CIPA's postgraduate training institute in Rome. She also teaches Spatial Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari. Her published works include Scritture della cura (2024, with Augusto Romano), La lingua padre (2020), and Il suono dell'assenza (2018), the latter receiving the 2024 Nabokov Prize for essays. Her unique interdisciplinary profile — spanning psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and electroacoustic composition — informs a practice attentive to the intersections of sound, the brain, and the psyche.