Belinda Mandelbaum & Stephen Frosh 
Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis 

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters address some central questions about psychoanalysis’ social role. How did psychoanalysis develop and flourish in a society in which modernisation was accompanied by inequality, authoritarianism and violence? How did psychoanalysis survive in Brazil alongside censorship and repression? Through a variety of lenses, the contributors demonstrate how psychoanalysis in Brazil presented itself as progressive and transformative and maintained this self-image even as it developed institutional structures that reproduce the authoritarianism of the wider society.

This novel work offers rich conceptual and practical insights for academic researchers and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and addresses methodological questions of concern to academics working across the social sciences. Crucially, it also outlines a distinctive vision of psychoanalysis seen through a Brazilian lens, which will be of interest to readers seeking to confront the Eurocentric and North American bias of much psychoanalytic debate.

Table of Content

1. Introduction (Belinda Mandelbaum, Stephen Frosh and Rafael Alves Lima).- 2. ‘Global’ Psychoanalysis in Latin America: Some Reflections (Mariano Ben Plotkin).- 3. Writing the history of psychoanalysis in Brazil: some questions for historiographic research (Carmen Lucia M. Valladares de Oliveira).- 4. Wounds of dictatorship in Brazilian psychoanalysis: traumatic revivals in research on the history of psychoanalysis (Belinda Mandelbaum).- 5. Learning from Cases – the problem of sharing knowledge in psychoanalysis (Stephen Frosh).- 6. Clinical Cases in the History of Brazilian Psychoanalysis (Christian Dunker and J. Guillermo Milán-Ramos
).- 7. Politics of Secrecy in the History of Psychoanalysis (Rafael Alves Lima).- 8. Between race degeneration and the primitive unconscious: the circulation of psychoanalytic theories in Brazil (Cristiana Facchinetti and Rafael Dias de Castro). – 9. Franco Da Rocha and the psychiatric discourse in São Paulo (1898-1914) (Raquel Saad de Avila Morales).- 10. For a conservative modernisation: the introduction of Social Psychology in Brazil through Psychoanalysis (Thiago Bloss de Araújo).- 11. The savage rests in every soul: social misfits and the primitive unconscious in Arthur Ramos’s Social Psychology (Fernando A. Figueira do Nascimento).- 12. The ‘fearless bandeirante’ Durval Marcondes, Psychoanalysis and the conservative modernization in Brazil (Belinda Mandelbaum and Stephen Frosh).- 13. A psychoanalyst between fame and oblivion: Karl Weissmann and the spread of Psychoanalysis in Brazil. (Rodrigo Afonso Nogueira Santos).- 14. A psychoanalysis for subversion: psychoanalytic discourse on the “new youth” in dictatorial Brazil (1964-1985) (Aline Librelotto Rubin).- 15. Gay psychoanalytic candidates in Sao Paulo, today: a recollection of interviews (Lucas Charafeddine Bulamah and Daniel Kupermann).- 16. Pioneers of Lacan’s ideas in Brazil: anessay on the history of the psychoanalytic movement (Francisco Capoulade).- 17. Mythification Demand? The Assimilation of the Black Legend of Jacques Lacan in Brazil (Fuad Kyrillos Neto and Rodrigo Afonso Nogueira Santos). 

About the author

Belinda Mandelbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Work Psychology at the Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil.  
Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.
Rafael Alves Lima is Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.