Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean

Paola Bohórquez, Verónica Garibotto, Paola Bohórquez, Verónica Garibotto

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000592016
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Psychology

This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political discourse through a collection of original interventions in the fields of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, health sciences, history, and philosophy.

The authors contribute to discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic concepts to reading Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical phenomona as well as how these regionally specific dimensions challenge and transform traditional psychoanalytic notions. Firstly, the book offers a regional overview of psychoanalysis as a discourse that reflects on the imbrication between the psychic and the sociopolitical. Secondly, it showcases intersectional perspectives that illuminate psychoanalysis's potentials and limitations in addressing contemporary problematics around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, the book attests to the area's role in advancing psychoanalysis as a transnational discipline.

By providing both a balanced regional overview and an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume will be essential for all psychoanalysts and scholars wanting to undersrand the place of psychoanalysis in Latin American and Caribbean discourse.

Index

• 1978 World Cup 29
• 2010 earthquake 5, 42, 45, 51; first anniversary of 46; second anniversary of 46
• 2666 (novel) 18, 23

• Aberastury, Arminda 161, 169, 174
• Abraham, Nicholas 56
• absence 5, 18, 25, 69–71, 73, 75–76, 78, 110–111, 115, 122, 182
• acedia 76
• A cien años (essay) 19
• Adler, Alfred 91
• affect/affective: phenomena 70, 73; powers 43; relationships 56
• Afro-Brazilians 7–8, 85–86, 88–90, 89, 92; histories and psychoanalytic experience of 92–99; preference for Black psychoanalysts 90; psychoanalysis for 85, 86, 90–91; woman 90
• Afro-descendants 85–88, 90, 92, 97–98; prejudice and discrimination against 86; subjective subversion of 92
• Agamben, Giorgio 5, 43, 76–77; Stanzas 76
• aggressiveness 25
• Agiui, Alexei 41
• Agnant, Marie-Célie 40
• Ainslie, Ricardo 10, 177–178, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 190; “A Voice Behind the Curtain” 10
• alcoholism 153
• alienation 18, 90–92, 91–92, 96–97, 108
• Allouch, Jean 72–74, 73
• Altman, Neil 10, 177–178, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 190; “A Voice Behind the Curtain” 10
• analysand 90–93, 95–98, 108, 112–113, 189
• anarchists 9, 143–149, 151, 153–155
• anasemia 5, 56
• Andrade, Oswald de 85; Anthropophagic Manifesto 85
• Anglo-American films, liminality of gendered body in 115
• Anthropological Essays (Lewis) 177–179
• anthropologists 22, 48, 86, 178–182, 186–187
• anthropology, Lewis’s views on 10
• Anthropophagic Manifesto (Andrade) 85
• anti-Aristide political militia 42
• anti-Black Antillean 89
• anxiety 3, 7, 17, 24, 31, 10...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Beyond the Therapist Couch: Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Section I Reading Latin America and the Caribbean: Sociopolitical Perspectives
• Section II Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives
• Section III Popular Reception and Public Circulation: Transnational Perspectives
• Index