Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina (review)
How many countries can chronicle their twentieth-century cultural, political, and ideological experiences through the lens of the psychoanalytic community? No nation in the Americas has a larger percentage of the population practicing psychoanalysis than Argentina; no city in the world, with the possible exception of Paris, has a larger percentage of psychoanalysts than Buenos Aires. Few societies in the world rival the Argentine middle and upper classes in their awareness of mental health and the subconscious in shaping their lives and the life of their country.