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This overdue anthology must be greatly welcomed.
It has been edited with great competence and moving passion by Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski and Alberto Pieczanski, two Argentinian psychoanalysts who studied first in Buenos Aires during the late sixties, trained in London during the seventies and now are practicing and teaching mainly in Washington, DC, USA.
This is not a collection of papers whose aim is to cover the whole development of psychoanalysis in South America.
There is no doubt that the so-called Argentinian School of Psychoanalysis located in Buenos Aires, and its specificity, due to the creativity of its pioneers and their pupils, has been a very prominent – if not the most prominent – school of psychoanalysis for decades in South America; this collection reflects that reality. Many psychoanalysts coming from Central and South America trained in Buenos Aires and have maintained personal and professional links for years with that school.
Of course, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and so forth, have developed their own approaches to psychoanalysis, with original results linked to the vicissitudes of their local Psychoanalytic Societies and links with the specific cultural, social and political histories of those countries.
After the period dominated by the work and personalities of Sigmund Freud and particularly of Melanie Klein and her school, whose work during the fifties and sixties of the last century had been studied and accepted with enormous interest much earlier in Argentina than in Europe or in North America, Argentinian psychoanalysts also became very interested in W. Bion and D. Meltzer, and more recently in Lacan, Kohut and others.