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In reading Raul Hartke's “The Oedipus Complex: A Confrontation at the Central Cross-Roads of Psychoanalysis” (2016), I came across a reference to a piece by Willy Baranger on the oedipus complex from the late seventies that I had never heard of and that immediately stirred my curiosity. Intrigued, and encouraged by a similarly intrigued colleague, I hunted it down and discovered that it has never been translated into English and, to my knowledge, is available only where originally published in 1976, in Revista de psicoanálisis, a publication of the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. For reasons of which I am unaware, issues of this journal disappear from the PEP database beginning in 1970, and the only other place a reader might find a copy of this brilliant treatise on Klein's and Freud's Oedipus is in Baranger's Artesanías Psicoanalíticas, edited in 1995 and republished in 2014 with colleagues Raquel Zak de Goldstein and Néstor Goldstein. Here the reader will encounter a trove of invaluable writing gathered together by a small group of Latin America's most erudite and penetrating psychoanalytic minds.
Granted, this book is mostly Willy Baranger's1; he is the sole author of fifteen of its twenty-four chapters. The remaining nine chapters were written with the Goldsteins, Nora R. de Bisi, Hector Garbadino, Jorge Galeano Muñoz, and Gela Rosenthal. For this reason, it is possible to read this book as representative of Willy Baranger's thinking and for his collaborators'