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The Argentine Psychoanalytic Association's Revista de Psicoanálisis was founded in 1943 and is the oldest psychoanalytic journal in Spanish. It has been published uninterruptedly, through thick and thin, at a quarterly rate. Many classic and key psychoanalytic papers written in Latin America first came to light on its pages.
Volume 67, Number 1-2, a double issue, is dedicated to psychoanalysis in Latin America. Not Latin American psychoanalysis, since this would imply unity and sameness and reduce it to a monolith. Psychoanalysis in Latin America is variegated, multiple, and particular, a cross-fertilization of the indigenous and the imported that imparts unique flavors and textures to it.
Although it is impossible to make generalizations about psychoanalysis in Latin America, some issues surface again and again, like a leitmotiv, in newspapers, in books, journals, and on the Internet: the questioning of the “identity” of the analyst and the effects of the social imaginary and ideology on psychoanalysis; theoretical pluralism and the desire for openness, creativity, and renewal; the clinical and theoretical challenges in dealing with the waxing of the “new pathologies” and the waning of neuroses; the need for construction and resignification in the aftermath of dictatorship, violence, and brutality; and the interplay of trauma, memory, and desire. There are deep and passionate engagements with philosophy, literature, anthropology, and sociology. Psychoanalysis has a very strong presence at the university, especially in the Río de la Plata region, and is closely allied to psychology and psychiatry. Several institutes offer cursos virtuales, psychoanalytic courses over the Internet, and psychoanalysis plays a role in hospitals, mental