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Published online: 24 January 2025
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The work edited by Paola Bohórquez and Verónica Garibotto aims to address the role played by psychoanalysis in different contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean, but without limiting itself to just classic private-consultation psychoanalysis or the psychoanalyst locked in their consulting room receiving patients from a certain socioeconomic stratum. On the contrary, it seeks to disseminate the diverse and original ways in which psychoanalysis can be thought of from different perspectives. The point is to put psychoanalysis in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, such as sociology, anthropology, cultural and gender studies, and philosophy. Overall, the book seems to want to answer a question: how can psychoanalysis be used to understand contemporary psychic suffering in a part of the world where the diversity of sexualities, races, and classes has historically been used as a basis for segregation and rejection? Categories such as race, gender, and class come to be questioned in some of the chapters, suggesting the beginning of a type of decolonization of the discourse. The book is divided into three sections: the first explores the sociopolitical readings psychoanalysis can offer on different social issues; the second delves into themes intersecting with psychoanalysis, and considers how it is used and hosted in different countries; and the third section offers a more historical approach to psychoanalysis in Latin America, including a chapter on the history of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and the journal, Revista de Psicoanálisis. I will present what, in my opinion, are the chapters to highlight and that deserve attention, and conclude with a reading and analysis of the two most representative chapters of the book.