Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. The beginnings of psychoanalysis in Argentina 2. The founding of the apa and the development of the Argentine psychoanalytic movement 3. Social change and the expansion of the psychoanalytic world 4. The diffusers' role in the expansion of the psychoanalytic realm 5. The encounter between psychoanalysis and psychiatry 6. Psychologists take the stage 7. When Marx meets Freud 8. Politics, lacanianism, and the intellectual left 9. The aftermath Notes References Index.

About the Author

Mariano Ben Plotkin is Director of the New York University site in Buenos Aires. He is the author of Mañana es San Perón: Propaganda, rituales políticos, y educación en el régimen peronista.

Reviews

"This is a marvelous book. Rich in narrative detail, sweeping in scope, and bold in interpretation, it offers a comprehensive account of one of the world's largest psychoanalytical movements. Plotkin also provides insights into Argentina's public and private cultures that are suffused from top to bottom with psychoanalytic concepts." - Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University "This book is the first detailed study of how clinical work, literary and cultural movements, and even intellectual and political discourse [in Argentina] have been and continue to be profoundly shaped by psychoanalytic premises." - American Historical Review "The achievement of Freud in the Pampas is its informative account of the enormous impact that psychoanalysis has had on Argentine culture and of the profound effect that the politicized culture of Argentina has had on psychoanalysis." - JAPA "Mariano Plotkin's 2001 study, Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina isan important and necessary book..." - Latin American Research Review