ABSTRACT
In 1911, Ortega y Gasset, an intellectual with great prestige, educated at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Freiburg, published a long essay, "Psychoanalysis: A Problematic Science", recognizing the importance of many of Freudian contributions, to the point of recommending the publication of the texts of Sigmund Freud in Spanish. Writers and artists felt attracted by the Freudian discussions: Dali, Machado, Sanchez Mejias, Bunuel, and Azorin, among others, expressed in their writings the influence of psychoanalytic ideas. The interest around psychoanalysis within Spanish psychiatry motivated two Spanish psychiatrists, R. Sarro and A. Garma, to acquire a psychoanalytic education. In 1966, after the separation of the Portuguese, the Portuguese–Spanish Society of Psychoanalysis was reconstituted as the Spanish Society of Psychoanalysis. The Madrid Psychoanalytical Association is a Component Society of the Congress of French-Language Psychoanalysts, organized by the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, and, as members of the group of psychoanalysts of Romance languages, they participate actively in the biannual congress.
