Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Part I Introduction and Prelude
1 Introduction
	Psychoanalysis, History, Brazil
	Psychosocial Histories
	Chapter Outlines
	A Note on the Text
	References
2 Prelude: ‘Global’ Psychoanalysis in Latin America: Some Reflections
	Psychoanalysis in Latin America or Latin American Psychoanalysis
	How Should We Approach the Social and Cultural Study of Psychoanalysis in Latin America?
	References
Part II Methodological Issues
3 Writing the History of Psychoanalysis in Brazil: Some Questions for Historiographic Research
	Periodisation
	Filiations
	The History of the Present Time
	Truth and the Construction of History
	Testimonial
	Repressed Memory
	For the Constitution of Archives of Psychoanalysis
	References
4 Wounds of Dictatorship in Brazilian Psychoanalysis: Traumatic Revivals in Research on the History of Psychoanalysis
	Historical Context
	The Research
	Research Timeline
	Nazism and Brazilian Dictatorship
	Dictatorship and Life
	Research and Trauma
	Lack of Evidence and Oblivion of History
	References
5 Learning from cases—The Problem of Sharing Knowledge in Psychoanalysis
	Case Studies
	The Impossibility of the Case
	Institutional Histories
	References
6 Clinical Cases in the History of Brazilian Psychoanalysis
	Introduction
	Discursive Hybridity
	Normative Descriptivism
	Canonical Form of the Clinical Case
	The Lacanian Inversion
	Conclusion
	References
7 Politics of Secrecy in the History of Psychoanalysis
	For a Metapsychology of the Secret
	Politics of Secrecy
	Secrecy and Archive: Historiographic Consequences for the History of Psychoanalysis
	Conclusion
	References
Part III Specific Histories of Psychoanalysis in Brazil
8 Between Race Degeneration and the Primitive Unconscious: The Circulation of Psychoanalytic Theories in Brazil
	From Degeneration of the Race to Physical and Situational Factors: The Diseases of Brazil
	The First Contours of the Appropriation of Psychoanalysis in Rio De Janeiro
	Prevention: Psychoanalysis and Mental Hygiene
	Modernising the Country by Analysing Individuals
	Final Considerations
	References
9 Franco Da Rocha and the Psychiatric Discourse in São Paulo (1898–1914)
	Franco Da Rocha (1864–1933)
	Revista Médica De São Paulo (1898–1914)
	Franco Da Rocha’s Discourse in the Revista
	Final Remarks
	References
10 For a Conservative Modernisation: The Introduction of Social Psychology in Brazil Through Psychoanalysis
	One Step Back: The Ancestors of Social Psychology in Brazil
	Social Psychology and Conservative Modernisation
	Social Psychology Through Psychoanalysis: Between Inheritance and the Environment
	Concrete Authoritarianism, Theoretical Authoritarianism: A Dialectical Conclusion
	References
11 The Savage Rests in Every Soul: Social Misfits and the Primitive Unconscious in Arthur Ramos’s Social Psychology
	Introduction
	A Historical Outline
	Approaches
	Arthur Ramos: Introductory Remarks
		Between Eras: The Introduction to Social Psychology
	References
12 The “Fearless Bandeirante”: Durval Marcondes, Psychoanalysis and Conservative Modernisation in Brazil
	Introduction
	A “Fearless Bandeirante” in Psychoanalysis
	Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and the Poetry of Durval Marcondes
	A Psychoanalysis in Service of the Normalisation of Childhood
	Teaching at USP in Dictatorial Times
	Conclusion
	References
13 A Psychoanalyst Between Fame and Oblivion: Karl Weissmann and the Spread of Psychoanalysis in Brazil
	Karl Weissmann’s Early Days and His Work with Psychoanalysis: From Vigorous Psychoanalyst to Magician of Hypnotism
	Maturity: From the Ghost of Communism to Medical Publications
	A Psychoanalyst, but Not so Much: On Censorship and Erasure in the History of Psychoanalysis
	Final Considerations
	References
14 A Psychoanalysis for Subversion: Psychoanalytic Discourse on the ‘new Youth’ in Dictatorial Brazil (1964–1985)
	A Psychoanalytic Take on Youth Protest and the Counterculture
	The (Psychoanalytic) Message of ‘Roda-Viva’
	Final Considerations
	References
15 Gay Psychoanalytic Candidates in São Paulo, Today: A Recollection of Interviews
	References
16 Pioneers of Lacan’s Ideas in Brazil: An Essay on the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
	Transmission of Psychoanalysis at University
	About the Foundation
	Final Considerations
	References
17 Mythification Demand? The Assimilation of the Black Legend of Jacques Lacan in Brazil
	Introduction
	Was It a Methodological Mistake?
	Is It a Black Legend? Notes About Method in Roudinesco’s Work
	Where the Arrow Misses the Target… What Does It Strike?
	A Brazilian Target? On the 1998 Schism
	A Case from Minas Gerais: The Imaginary Dimension of Transference as Authoritarianism
	Final Considerations
	References
Index