Origin stories, invention of genealogies and the early diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960-1980)

SERGIO EDUARDO VISACOVSKY

The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism

Palgrave Macmillan

Lugar: New York; Año: 2009; p. 227 - 256

This work intends to analyze how the narrations of the early diffusion of Lacanism in Argentina and Spain by the same agents implied a process of inscription and conciliation of the same –as an origin story– regarding particular established forms of narrating the national psychoanalytical past and how this task involved a global reinterpretation of the each psychoanalytical past. As we will see, this had the main objective of inventing genealogies that could give legitimacy to the individuals, and new Lacanian institutions founded in the name of psychoanalysis.