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Against a sociocultural background of severe hardship, psychoanalytic groups in South America have been forced to pay attention to issues seldom addressed in the North American psychoanalytic sector. This issue of APDEBA clearly illustrates this phenomenon.
There is a need in psychoanalysis for a specific approach that takes into account the constitution of the social subject. Produced on the thirty-year anniversary of the military coup that installed Argentina's dictatorship, this issue is aimed at creating an articulation between context, culture, creative history, and personal history. Part of the background to the ideas expressed here is the notion that in extreme social situations, analysts are faced with a choice between neutrality and solidarity, a conflictual ethic that serves as an ideological framework.
Representation and the Impossible. By , pp. 247-273.
The author gives a context to his ideas by referring to Primo Levi's statement that the Shoah needs to be thought from a psychic point of view. In his prologue to If This Is a Man,1 Levi stated that his purpose was to provide documentation for a “calm” study of some aspects of the human soul. Benslama attempts to situate himself vis-à-vis Levi's exhortation.