ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis, challenged by a collision with a large grouping of politically conscious women, found itself growing both institutionally and intellectually in new directions. The second wave of feminism of the 1960s and 1970s refused to accept the invisibility of women's work. Historically, women have been among the most important contributors to the development of psychoanalysis. Between 1922 and 1935, Karen Horney, anticipating feminist concerns of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote fourteen papers on the subject of the psychology of women. These gender-conscious psychotherapists were uniquely enabled to hear and to understand what women had to say about their inner lives. The centrality of the mother-daughter relationship hinted at by Klein became the centrepiece of a new psychology of women, replacing the dominant classical psychoanalytic concept of women as failed men. For contemporary Latin American feminist psychoanalysts, the historical moment, while contiguous with North American and European experience, was far more demanding.
