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The importance of psychoanalysis in Argentina is recognized by friend and foe alike. Nevertheless, the historical process leading to this situation is less well known. In this paper I focus on two periods crucial to understanding the unusual scope of Freudian ideas and practices in that country.
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My hypothesis is that the prominent position that psychoanalysis still holds in Argentina can be best understood by considering the history of its relationship with academic psychology and situating that connection in an intellectual and political context where French thought has always been crucial.
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The article is very useful as a first approach to a complex problem: the unparalleled importance of psychoanalysis in Argentina. It gives a historical background to this question that is crucial to anyone who wants to understand Argentina’s cultural present.
Alejandro Dagfal
Universidad de Buenos Aires
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This page is a summary of: Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976., History of Psychology, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/hop0000071.
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