Freud, politics, and the Porteños : the reception of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, 1910-1943
Hispanic American historical review, vol. 77, no. 1, 1997, pp. 45–74
Abstract
An investigation of the reception of psychoanalysis in medical, particularly psychiatric, circles in Argentina prior to its institutionalization in 1942. The writer argues that psychoanalysis had a significant impact on medical and cultural circles long before the creation of the Asociacion Psicoanalitica Argentina (APA) and even before the arrival in 1938 of the APA’s founder, Angel Garma. He then examines the connections between the institutionalization of psychoanalysis in Argentina and the country’s political situation in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Finally, he considers the influence of the political conditions in Argentina on the early development of psychoanalysis there.
