ABSTRACT
After reviewing the most recent scholarship on psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean, the introduction outlines our volume’s main contribution to this ongoing conversation. Rather than providing a history of the discipline, our book illuminates psychoanalysis’s role as social and political discourse through a collection of state-of-the-art interventions in the fields of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, health sciences, history, anthropology, and philosophy. The chapters in the first section explore the applicability of psychoanalytic concepts for reading Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical phenomena as well as how these regionally specific dimensions challenge and transform traditional psychoanalytic notions. The second section examines psychoanalytic discourses from an intersectional perspective to elucidate the discipline’s potential and limitations in addressing contemporary problematics around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, the third section focuses on the popular reception and public circulation of psychoanalysis and acknowledges Latin America and the Caribbean’s key role in the configuration of a transnational system of thought.
