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We are pleased to launch a new section in this edition of the journal, dedicated to the introduction of South American psychoanalytic thinking. The committee, Psychoanalytic Bridges with South America (comprising members affiliated to the Société Psychanalytique de Montréal, Quebec English Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, and Association des psychothérapeutes psychanalytiques du Québec) has now been active for over a year. Its mandate is to find ways of creating bridges between the psychoanalytic community in Canada and in South America. The two papers included in this new section are the result of our initial efforts.
Realizing the enormity of the task that lay ahead, the committee began by sorting out the rather large and varied psychoanalytic world in South America. For example, the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation (fepal) includes eight South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) with a total of 28 psychoanalytic societies recognized by the International Psychoanalytical Association. This does not include many interesting independent organizations and Societies, such as La Sociedad Psicoanalítica del Sur (the Psychoanalytic Society of the South), which follows a training philosophy different from the one proposed by the ipa, and Info BabelPsi C, an organization that focuses on migratory experiences and intercultural phenomena.
Our first project consisted of a collaboration with the Psicoanálisis e Intersubjetividad journal (published in Buenos Aires, Argentina). We chose this journal because of its openness to different psychoanalytic cultures; it publishes papers in three different languages from authors