ABSTRACT
The institutional features that characterize the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association and that differentiate us from other institutes have developed within a society that has a democratic and participatory history, which at the outset of the twentieth century achieved electoral and labour rights and health care for women and children, enacted advanced legislation in the areas of labour conditions, family affairs, and divorce, and promoted free and universal education. The Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association Institute was motivated by the same principles that had led Sigmund Freud, together with pioneering psychoanalysts such as Max Eitingon, to organize the first institute of psychoanalysis in Berlin. At the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries, cultural life and the fields of health and education seem to have developed and strengthened a resistance to psychoanalysis. Fantasies that exercise strong influence on the atmosphere of the Institute can result in a powerful resistance to the process of psychoanalytic discovery.
