Between the Unconscious and the People: Pschoanalysis and Politics in Three Latin-American Authors

MAURO PASQUALINI

Buenos Aires

Conferencia; The Therapeutic North and South: Towards New Conceptualizations in Therapeutic Cultures; 2021

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The paper focuses on the relationship betweenpolitical theory and psychoanalysis in Latin America through three specificcases: the historian and political theorist Ernesto Laclau, the Argentinianpsychoanalyst Jorge Alemán, and the Mexican philosopher and Lacanianpsychoanalyst David Pavón Cuellar. Based on the works and political andintellectual itineraries of these authors, the paper explores three basicdimensions: the modes in which these authors combine psychoanalytic theory withother philosophical or theoretical influences ?such as gender theory,post-structuralism, or Marxism, ?the agenda of issues they address, and theirpolitical commitments. Focusing on these three dimensions, the paper tries torespond a series of questions: Is there a specific modality of Latin Americanpolitical psychoanalysis? What is the extent of these authors' influence ontheir professions and political groups? What is the potential of theirreflections on the field of political theory or social sciences?