You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Before naming Latin America, I would like to open a parenthesis.
“… and the rest of the world”—a quote, a bon mot, from the International Psychoanalytic Association. The Association's proposed Constitution of 1977, as ratified by the Thirtieth Congress in Jerusalem, contains a parenthetical sentence which attempts after a fashion to map the divisions of the psychoanalytic world: “(The Association's main geographical areas are defined at this time as America north of the United States-Mexican border; all America south of that border; and the rest of the world.)” The formulation is far too tempting— the bon mot simply too good—not to take the said “rest” as a starting point. Basically the word denominates Europe, the native land, and old mother country of psychoanalysis, a body tattooed all over with psychoanalytic institutions and apparatuses; but the self-same “rest of the world” also connotes all that virgin psychoanalysis, to put it bluntly, has never set foot. “The rest of the world,” for the IPA Constitution, is thus a title, a name and a location shared by the roots of psychoanalysis and everything which, since it lies beyond the boundaries of psychoanalysis, has yet to be opened up to it-all expectations in this regard being legitimate; a sort of Far West or no man's land, then—but also a sort of foreign body named, incorporated and circumscribed ahead of time by an IPA Constitution rehearsing, as it were, the psychoanalytic colonization of a non-American rest-of-the-world, the conquest