Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present (Dialogos)

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Argentina is the world’s center of psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century. Not only have many Argentines undergone psychoanalytic therapy, but Argentines from taxi drivers to actresses, from politicians to generals, all speak in “psychoanalese,” and two of the preferred TV shows in the country have psychoanalysis as their central issue. This pathbreaking choice of essays explores the prevalence of psychoanalysis in Argentina. It traces the best way Freud’s theories took hold in Argentina and probes the ways during which the history of psychiatry illuminates our understanding of up to date Argentina.

The contributors use the diffusion of psychiatry as a window wherein to examine the development of the Argentine state, the process wherein European ideas are “Argentinized,” and the general social and cultural evolution of the country, especially efforts to verify order and a civil society. Three of the essays examine psychiatry as an instrument of social keep watch over in the realms of female sexuality and the development of hospitals and prisons in the first half of the twentieth century. In a poignant concluding chapter, Plotkin discusses mental health and the 2001-2 Argentine crisis. In the complex social, political, and economic situation gripping the nation, the country’s media continues to turn to psychoanalysis as a lens that filters reality reasonably than identify and address individual and collective responsibility for the origin and nature of the crisis.

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