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

Paola Bohórquez is assistant professor, teaching stream, cross-appointed between Woodsworth College and the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. She has published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Synthesis, and Tusaaji: A Translation Review, and in the collections On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture, American Multicultural Studies, and La Lingua Spaesata: Il Multilinguismo Oggi.Verónica Garibotto is professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Crisis y reemergencia: el siglo XIX en la ficción contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015) and Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (2019), and co-editor, with Jorge Pérez, of The Latin American Road Movie (2016).

• 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 1.-“Ciudad Juárez, Feminicides, and the Fate of the Symbolic”; 2.-“Against and Beyond Mourning: Rethinking Trauma Theory from a Caribbean Perspective”; 3.- “The Phantom in the Andes: An Anasemic Reading of La hora azul and La distancia que nos separa”; 4.-“From Mourning to Specters: the ‘Disappeared’ and the Emotional Implications of Absence in Latin America”; 5.- “Psychoanalysis in Colombia: Is it Possible to Move Beyond Violence After Fifty Years of Continued Armed Conflict?”; 6.- “Tribulación y Felicidad del Pensamiento”: Thinking with Estanislao Zuleta through Translation.”; Section II: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives 7.-“Transcultural Psychoanalysis? How Afro-Brazilian Histories Subvert and Get Subverted by the Psychoanalytic Experience.” 8.-“Deep-lying Playmaker: a Psychoanalytic Reading of Neoliberal Identities in Argentine and Brazilian soccer” ; 9.-“Psychoanalytic Discourses on Trans Children in the River Plate Region” ; 10.-“Rethinking Psychoanalytic Notions of Gender and Sexuality: Uruguayan Women in the Twenty First Century” ;Section III: Popular Reception and Public Circulation: Transnational Perspectives11.-“Anarchists, Socialists, Communists, and Freudians: The Working Class in Chile and its Reception of Psychoanalysis (1920-1950)” ; 12.-“The Early Expansion of Psychoanalysis in Latin America. The Key Role of the Argentine Revista de Psicoanálisis.” ; 13.-“A Voice Behind the Curtain: How Mexican Psychoanalysis Helped Shape Oscar Lewis’s Notion of the Culture of Poverty” ;

'Reading this fascinating collection, I realized that, finally, we have a book that addresses the complexities of psychoanalysis in Latin America. Focusing on the political, cultural and social specificities of the region, this is an indispensable book that, from a novel and interdisciplinary perspective, fills an important gap existing in the big narratives on psychoanalysis. Its wonderfully crafted chapters question the possibilities and limitations of a psychoanalytic approach to the Latin American multiverse reality. It will become a must read for anyone interested in psychoanalysis and in Latin American culture and politics in general.'Mariano Ben Plotkin, researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CONICET) and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero'Psychoanalysis is here decolonized thanks to intense, unforgettable readings of urgent issues ranging from feminicide violence, to an impossible mourning for the desaparecidos, to melancholy and necropolitics, to decolonized clinical practice with Afro-Brazilians, to the plight of intersex and trans-transvestite children. This fiercely relevant collection shows how psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean brings about a transformation of race, class, and gender while redrawing the map of transnational psychoanalysis today.'Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst and author of Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference