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This book meets the task its editors set up for themselves; they effectively and eloquently engage and educate the reader of the seminal works by the pioneers of psychoanalysis in South America.
The manner in which the editors organized the book, with a concise summary of the conceptual content of the papers plus a short biographical description of the authors, prepares the reader to engage and enjoy the subject at hand.
Editors alert us that many of these papers were not known to the English audience as this is the first time they have been translated. Also they remind us that due to geographical, political, and cultural realities the psychoanalytic movements from Europe and the North American continent had limited influence in the conceptual evolution of these authors. In a way it is this limited influence from other continents that makes these papers so unique and interesting. In reading them it is evident that the language utilized to express the developing, creative, and innovative conceptual growth of the discipline within Latin America has an existing flair of its own. The brief theoretical introduction of each chapter makes the adaptation to this Latin America theoretical language not only possible but exciting and challenging.
Conceptually one experiences a similar effervescence that followed in the North American continent and in Europe. One experiences parallels in the conceptual frames and their clinical applications, fostered more by their careful and consistent learning through a methodical observation of their clinical work and the reading and cross fertilization with other psychoanalysts within Latin America versus Europe or North America.
The roots are clearly in Freud and later the English school, mainly Melanie Klein, which continued with the exploration of object relations theory. The Introduction to this rich and informative book follows step by step the formation of the first Psychoanalytic Society in South America in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with