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The paper, The analytic situation as a dynamic field, written by Madeleine and Willy Baranger in the early 1960s2, is one of their most significant works. It includes a more detailed description of their view of the analytic situation. This conception demonstrates the development of original thinking gestated in dialogue with other thinkers in this region who also made original contributions, from the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The major influences we find in this paper come from Enrique Pichon Riviere, Heinrich Racker, Luisa Alvarez de Toledo, Jorge Mom, Leon Grinberg and David Liberman. However, this exchange of ideas was doubtless immersed in the far vaster context of fermentation in which the psychoanalytic groups of the region were formed and established. This cultural context included ideas provided by psychoanalysis and social psychology, as well as philosophical and literary ideas.
Willy and Madeleine Baranger, both French citizens, came to Argentina in 1946 when the group of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA), formed in 1942, was assembling. Its pioneering members were Celes Carcamo, Guillermo Ferrari Ardoy, Angel Garma, Marie Langer, Enrique Pichon Riviere and Arnaldo Rascovsky. Willy Baranger, Professor of Philosophy and Madeleine Baranger3, Professor of Classics in France (Kancyper, 1999; Melgar, 2001), took their psychoanalytic training in Buenos Aires. They were members of a second generation of analysts of the APA, together with Arminda Aberastury, Luisa Alvarez de Toledo, Jose Bleger, Leon Grinberg, Salomon Resnik, David Liberman and Jorge and Teresa Mom.
Willy and Madeleine Baranger subsequently moved to Montevideo from 1954 to1965 with the aim of contributing to the constitution of the Uruguayan psychoanalytic group.4 In 1966, they moved back to Argentina permanently and became an integral part of the institutional life of the APA, where they worked untiringly as analysts, teachers, thinkers of psychoanalysis and promo