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In response to the need to disseminate the psychoanalytic thought of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association after it was founded in December 1942, the first issue of the Revista de Psicoanálisis appeared in July 1943. It has become the most time-honoured continuous publication in Spanish. Its editorial guiding principles have always been to publicize the scientific work of the Association's members without neglecting the publication of relevant texts by authors all over the world. Freud's Analysis terminable and interminable was first published in Spanish in the Revista in 1946, and the Revista also provided access through early translations to the most prominent English and French authors (such as Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Lacan, Laplanche and Leclaire). Alongside current trends in Argentinean psychoanalysis, its volumes have addressed significant controversial topics in psychoanalysis over a long period, without neglecting the social environment, its diversity and the help it demands. From its inception, the Revista's pluralistic orientation has allowed the dissemination of different theoretical frames of reference.
Its current objectives are the transmission and scientific development of psychoanalysis through the publication of papers on methodology, psychoanalytic theory, technique and clinical practice. The Revista also publishes writings on the history of psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary studies, psychoanalytic contributions to mental health and culture, journals, book reviews and obituaries. Since 1977, it has not only been in charge of the official translation and publication of pre-published papers for the major panels of the IPA Congress, but it has also been given preference in the publication of accepted individual papers in Spanish. The possibility of revisiting many original works from the past 70 years has made the Revista a documentary testimony to the growth of psychoanalysis worldwide.
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