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This special issue of Psicoanálisis, entitled Dolor Social (“Social Pain”), reflects the ongoing concerns of Argentine psychoanalysts, working in conditions of unusual, extreme, and often quite traumatic social upheaval and crisis. It was created against a historical background of interest in social issues and a tradition of political and social involvement that predates the military dictatorship of the 1970s, as well as the State terrorism that resulted in over 30,000 desaparecidos (disappeared).
As recalled in Blanck-Cereijido's article (see p. 879 of these abstracts), the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association was founded by six psychoanalysts, two of whom were exiles (Angel Garma and Marie “Mimi” Langer). These analysts and the ones trained later were socially and politically active: from the beginning, their Weltanschauung included a profound reflection about the effects on the individual of social and cultural phenomena, as well as of migration. It is no accident that two of the three authors of “The Babel of the Unconscious” (Jacqueline Amati Mehler and Jorge Canestri) were raised in Argentina, and that it would take an Argentine couple (León and Rebecca Grinberg) to write their deep and personal book, Psychoanalysis of Migration and Exile.