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In 1973 an article by Marie Langer, published in the Argentinean Newsletter Cuestionamos, revealed that information sent from a Brazilian underground paper Voz Operdria, stated that Brazilian doctor Amllcar Lobo was working for the army, in a team whose job was to use torture in order to obtain information from political prisoners. A penciled note on the margins of the newspaper clipping sent to Langer added that Dr. Lobo was an analytic candidate at the Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro, as well as an analysand of the Society's president, Dr. Leao Cabernite.
That was the beginning of the Lobo case, 31 years ago. At the time of publication of this paper, the Lobo case and the events that followed have been the focus of splits and controversies that are partly solved, and then forgotten, and then repeated again.
What is repressed in everyday speech finds other forms of expressing itself in the real—producing symptoms, fantasies, hallucinations. At the institutional level the silence of secrecy is often transformed in both repression and oppression, and Brazilians have traditionally expressed in songs and music what they are forbidden to say in public or publish in the press.
In the 1970s Chico Buarque, a Brazilian singer, composer,