Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
SECTION I Freud with a Spanish accent: The Latin American experience of the psychic being political
	1 Freud and the Latin Americans: A forgotten relationship
	2 Psychoanalysts bearing witness: Trauma and memory in Latin America
	3 Dying to get out: Challenges in the treatment of Latin American migrants fleeing violent communities
SECTION II Pathology of otherness: Diagnosis in the barrio
	4 The analyst as interpreter: Ataque de nervios, Puerto Rican syndrome, and the inexact interpretation
	5	The anxiety of citizenship or the psychotic as citizen
	6	Eating brains: Latinx barrios, psychoanalysis and neuroscience
SECTION III The Latino queer body: Mourning, melancholia, and the law
	7 Visible pleasure and sex policing: State, science, and desire in twentieth-century Cuba
	8 Melancholia and the abject on Mango Street: Racialized narratives/psychoanalysis
	9 Chencha’s gait: Voice and nothing in Myrta Silva
	10 Beside oneself: Queer psychoanalysis and the aesthetics of Latinidad
SECTION IV The clinical is political
	11	The political potentiality of the psychoanalytic process
	12 Treating borderline personality disorder in El Barrio: Integrating race and class into transference-focused psychotherapy
	13	Psychoanalysis of poverty, poverty of psychoanalysis
Index