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Willy Baranger was born in Algeria. After moving to France in his childhood, he pursued his education, obtaining a PhD in philosophy at the end of World War II. He then started a short-lived teaching career in France, lasting one year, and the Barangers (because Willy was already married to Madeleine) migrated to Argentina, where he taught philosophy.
Willy started analysis with Enrique Pichon-Rivière, one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in Argentina, and from then on he and Madeleine developed together – to the point that nowadays they constitute, in the mind of those that know their work, “the Barangers” – a conceptual unit. The fertility and originality of their contributions and their joint teaching and publications makes it difficult to establish a proper separation of their individual contributions.
Soon after their arrival in the late 1940s, they started their training at the then-recently founded Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. However, settling down did not seem to be the Barangers’ destiny, at least for the time being.
At the time, a group of Uruguayan professionals interested in analysis were traveling regularly to Buenos Aires to train at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) and were in analysis in Montevideo with the Uruguayan pioneer Valentín Perez Pastorini. Juan Perón was the Argentine president, relationships with Uruguay were tense, and, eventually, traveling regularly to Argentina from Uruguay was prohibited, leaving the training of professionals from Uruguay interrupted until 1955.