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Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class and the Unconscious (2019) is a collection of thirteen essays explicitly on the relationship between psychoanalysis and “the Latino population”. However, its latent meanings go far beyond that focus. How culture and history not only are read by psychoanalysis but how they in turn write the psychoanalysis that is then the frame for that reading is one of them. The bi-directional interplay among theories, history, and practice is told in reference to the Latin American story, but the lessons to be learned are for psychoanalysis in general.
This past spring, two of the editors of the collection (Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian) and one of the contributors (Mariano Plotkin) had the following conversation with Loren Dent, (website Editor, DIVISION/Review).
LD: Please share a bit about how this collection came to be.
CC: The origin really was prompted by a number of very successful events that we had at the New School, co-sponsored
by the New School and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). One of them was a conference on Latin American contributions to psychoanalysis. And, a year later, another conference titled “Psychoanalysis in the Barrio”. The third thing that was instrumental in making us think later about the book was the documentary, Psychoanalysis in El Barrio (2016), which was funded by a grant from “Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing”. When we premiered the documentary, we were struck by the enormous amount of enthusiasm it generated, especially from younger clinicians. I had been on the program committee at IPTAR and we had hosted a number of talks over the past couple of years, including talks by renowned speakers such as Elizabeth Dantos and George Makari. For these events, we were used to getting rooms that typically sat about 100 to 160 people.
Well, within a week of announcing the screening of Psychoanalysis and El Barrio, we had over-filled the capacity of 100 seats, and needed