Psychoanalysis has become an object of historical interest and has a number of professionals, coming from various disciplines, producing an important amount of historical work on its dissemination, impact, circulation, and reception in various parts of the world, including different Latin American countries. The goals of this article are to conduct a critical review of the different historical perspectives that have been used in the historiography of psychoanalysis in Latin America and propose a roadmap that would allow the exploration of psychoanalysis in the region in different ways. Based on an extensive review and analysis of various documentary sources, it offers a historical interpretation of the reception of psychoanalysis in the Latin American region. In this work, different ways of interpreting the history of psychoanalysis in the international context are presented as well as the different forms of circulation of psychoanalytic ideas in Latin America. It is concluded that the history of psychoanalysis in Latin America is only understood by considering its different paths of access, the combination of different historiographic perspectives, and fundamentally its socio-cultural dimension.