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The aim of this paper is to present the use, or different uses, of the concept of projective identification within the scope of analysts belonging to the IPA in Brazil. A brief summary of the historical facts can help us to understand and contextualize some of the characteristics of this psychoanalytic production.
The psychoanalytic movement in Brazil has its origins in the mid 1920s through the pioneering figure of Durval Bellegarde Marcondes, through whose efforts the IPA-qualified training analyst Dr Adelheid Koch arrived in Brazil, in 1936, giving rise to the education of a group of candidates. After years of intense educational and institutional organizational efforts, in 1951, the first Society of Psychoanalysis was founded, gaining IPA recognition, in Brazil.
English analyst Mark Burke, member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, and began the analysis of candidates. In 1949, German psychoanalyst Werner Kemper
This is a condensed version of a research study conducted by the author. I would like to thank Luiz Meyer for the valuable discussions during the writing of this paper; my colleagues who undertook interviews for the research, including Aloísio de Abreu, Alírio Dantas Jr., Gley P. Costa, José Carlos Zanin, Maria Elena Salles, Maria Inês E. Carneiro, Marilza Taffarel, Nelson José de Nazaré Rocha, Paulo Marchon, Sergio Leukowics and Sonia Azambuja; Aurea Rampazzo and Greice Klem for help with the text; and Henrik Carbonnier, who translated it into English.
(considered a member of the Nazi party through documentation unearthed by Riccardo Steiner) also began the analysis of other candidates as part of their education. Due to a misunderstanding between these two groups, a third group of candidates was formed, seeking education in Argentina, and thus becoming known as the ‘Argentine group’. In the 1950s, some analysts such as Décio Soares de Souza and Henrique Mendes, who became a member of the British Society, returned