Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean

Paola Bohórquez is assistant professor, teaching stream, cross-appointed between Woodsworth College and the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. She has published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Synthesis, and Tusaaji: A Translation Review, and in the collections On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture, American Multicultural Studies, and La Lingua Spaesata: Il Multilinguismo Oggi.

Verónica Garibotto is professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Crisis y reemergencia: el siglo XIX en la ficción contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015) and Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (2019), and co-editor, with Jorge Pérez, of The Latin American Road Movie (2016).

This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political discourse through a collection of original interventions in the fields of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, health sciences, history, and philosophy.

The authors contribute to discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic concepts to reading Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical phenomona as well as how these regionally specific dimensions challenge and transform traditional psychoanalytic notions. Firstly, the book offers a regional overview of psychoanalysis as a discourse that reflects on the imbrication between the psychic and the sociopolitical. Secondly, it showcases intersectional perspectives that illuminate psychoanalysis's potentials and limitations in addressing contemporary problematics around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, the book attests to the area's role in advancing psychoanalysis as a transnational discipline.

By providing both a balanced regional overview and an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume will be essential for all psychoanalysts and scholars wanting to undersrand the place of psychoanalysis in Latin American and Caribbean discourse.