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Jornadas de Junho (June Journeys) is the name commonly given to a series of demonstrations which took place in Brazil in 2013. Beginning with smaller protests - a display of dissatisfaction with transportation cost increases - millions of people eventually took over the streets of several cities. The June Journeys might also be contextualized in relation to other demonstrations, such as the Arab Spring, and the anti-austerity movement in Spain, given their proximity in time, and the fact that crowd formations were informed by social media. In Brazil, protesting went viral and the protesters' agenda seemed diffuse. What is specific to the Brazilian context was the presence of a progressive left-wing government, the fresh memory of a then recent economic boom that kept the country immune to the credit crunch crisis, austerity and recession, and its rising status as a nation that was preparing to host both the World Cup and the Olympic Games. In fact, the June Journeys took place at the same time that Brazil's national squad played at home, in a preparatory tournament one year before the World Cup's kick-off. If Brazil is the country of football, many people proved to be more interested in protesting. From global darling to a place of discontent: it is against this background that Raluca Soreanu presents her book.
Working-Through Collective Wounds provides an account of the June Journeys that is both scholarly and personal, analytic and poetic. In her text, Soreanu articulates Sándor Ferenczi's metapsychology, providing an account of his psychoanalytic ideas with depth, reaching far beyond his most well-known works such as ‘The Confusion of Tongues’ (1933). One of the aims of the book is specifically to draw on Ferenczi's ideas - one of the most prominent members in the early years of psychoanalysis, a counterpoint to Freud's work, and a renowned clinician who fell into oblivion for a long time, and whose deserved importance has only more recently been properly acknowle