Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976

The hegemonic place acquired by psychoanalysis in the Argentinean psychotherapeutic field is recognized by friend and foe alike. Nevertheless, the historical process leading to this situation is less well known. In this article, I focus on 2 periods crucial to understanding the unusual scope of Freu...

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Autor: Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHOANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMS
ARGENTINA
FRENCH THOUGHT
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spelling Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976Dagfal, Alejandro AntonioHISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPYPSYCHOANALYSISUNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMSARGENTINAFRENCH THOUGHThttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5The hegemonic place acquired by psychoanalysis in the Argentinean psychotherapeutic field is recognized by friend and foe alike. Nevertheless, the historical process leading to this situation is less well known. In this article, I focus on 2 periods crucial to understanding the unusual scope of Freudian ideas and practices in that country. The first one (1955–1966) corresponds to the professionalization of psychology and was marked by projects such as those of Bleger and Pichon-Rivière. Their ideas involved an alliance between psychology and psychoanalysis within a larger synthesis whose philosophical framework was French existential phenomenology. This eclectic “psychoanalytic psychology” found an amazing sounding board in the newly created university psychology programs, in which it was adopted by future psychologists who took psychoanalysis as their primary theoretical and practical reference. The second period (1966 –1976), however, after the reception of French structuralism (mainly via Jacques Lacan and his local interpreters, such as Oscar Masotta), implied an exclusive disjunction: either psychoanalysis or psychology. Psychoanalysis was presented as a return to the Freudian sources. Therefore, it was supposed to replace a psychology that “ignored” unconscious determinism. Thus, paradoxically, Lacanianism, which found its main audience in psychology programs, invited psychologists to relinquish their own professional identity to become psychoanalysts. My hypothesis is that the prominent position that psychoanalysis still holds in Argentina can be best understood by considering the history of its relationship with academic psychology and situating that connection in an intellectual and political context in which French thought has always been crucial.Fil: Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Investigaciones; ArgentinaAmerican Psychological Association2018-08info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/155454Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio; Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976; American Psychological Association; History of Psychology; 21; 3; 8-2018; 254-2721093-45101939-0610CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/hop0000071info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1037/hop0000071info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T13:48:20Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/155454instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 13:48:21.082CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
title Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
spellingShingle Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio
HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHOANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMS
ARGENTINA
FRENCH THOUGHT
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
title_short Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
title_full Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
title_fullStr Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
title_full_unstemmed Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
title_sort Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio
author Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio
author_facet Dagfal, Alejandro Antonio
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHOANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMS
ARGENTINA
FRENCH THOUGHT
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
topic HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHOANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMS
ARGENTINA
FRENCH THOUGHT
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
description The hegemonic place acquired by psychoanalysis in the Argentinean psychotherapeutic field is recognized by friend and foe alike. Nevertheless, the historical process leading to this situation is less well known. In this article, I focus on 2 periods crucial to understanding the unusual scope of Freudian ideas and practices in that country. The first one (1955–1966) corresponds to the professionalization of psychology and was marked by projects such as those of Bleger and Pichon-Rivière. Their ideas involved an alliance between psychology and psychoanalysis within a larger synthesis whose philosophical framework was French existential phenomenology. This eclectic “psychoanalytic psychology” found an amazing sounding board in the newly created university psychology programs, in which it was adopted by future psychologists who took psychoanalysis as their primary theoretical and practical reference. The second period (1966 –1976), however, after the reception of French structuralism (mainly via Jacques Lacan and his local interpreters, such as Oscar Masotta), implied an exclusive disjunction: either psychoanalysis or psychology. Psychoanalysis was presented as a return to the Freudian sources. Therefore, it was supposed to replace a psychology that “ignored” unconscious determinism. Thus, paradoxically, Lacanianism, which found its main audience in psychology programs, invited psychologists to relinquish their own professional identity to become psychoanalysts. My hypothesis is that the prominent position that psychoanalysis still holds in Argentina can be best understood by considering the history of its relationship with academic psychology and situating that connection in an intellectual and political context in which French thought has always been crucial.
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