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This book is a collection of papers presented at the first Pan-American Congress for Psychoanalysis in Mexico City in 1964, and is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Maxwell Gitelson who played such a dominant role in bringing about the Congress. It consists of a historic exchange of views between psychoanalysts of North and South America.
The first part of the book contains three general papers on the Congress. Angel Garma and Leo Rangell present the early and recent history of the Pan-American Psychoanalytic Congress, and Jose Remus Araico deals with the role of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association. Three papers in the second section deal with various aspects of the 'psychoanalytic situation'. Jacob Arlow and Charles Brenner describe the complicated aspects of the psychoanalytic situation. Focusing directly upon the differences of opinion with the followers of Melanie Klein, they consider the various aspects of regression and quote Hartmann to the effect that 'the fact that the first situation of dependence in the life of every individual is his relationship with his mother, does not prove that every subsequent relationship of dependence reproduces the prototype… It is fallacious … to equate genetic origin with a current relationship.'
The first of two discussions of this paper is by Arminda Aberastury, Fidias R. Cesio, David Liberman, Jorge M. Mom, and Arnaldo Rascovsky of Buenos Aires, who deal principally with the transference and countertransference manifestations in the analytic situation. They write: 'Identifications between the analyst and the patient take place at levels so unconscious as to suggest that they occur within the boundaries between id and ego; so deep are these unconscious identifications that in our role as analysts, it can be stated that not only do we "feel" them, but that there is even a constant "biological" participation' (p. 46). These authors stress the importance of the primitive elements of the development of the ego. 'We also