ABSTRACT
Andrew Samuels is probably the Jungian analyst and thinker from overseas who has visited Brazil the most often in the last twenty years. Since the early 1990s, Samuels has come to our country on numerous occasions to share his psychological experience and knowledge with the Brazilian Jungian community. Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Canela were among the cities that received this British analyst – and, given his concern for politics, we could say British citizen. During his long journey through our tropical lands, Samuels presented very many contemporary topics and themes. Amongst themes of theoretical and clinical interest, he referred to the relationship of depth psychology and political transformation, the fascination of fundamentalism, the question of the father’s body, the relationship between personal anguish and social despair, the notion of the ‘good-enough leader’, the experience of love and its pains. His most recent lecture, given in São Paulo in November 2008, was on the theme of transforming aggression in personal and cultural contexts.
