ABSTRACT
We turn now to the temptation that besets almost every psychoanalyst after their training, those for whom psychoanalysis has turned into a world view, to ‘apply’ it here, there and everywhere. These next four chapters look at attempts to contextualise and apply psychoanalysis, beginning with Brazil as one country that has taken a different path through to modernity, with different competing conceptions of the relationship between culture and nature. You will encounter many competing schools of psychoanalysis, glued together by the narcissism of minor differences. This application of psychoanalysis also begins in the very process of questioning it, looking for something different from Western preconceptions in another strange dialectic of Enlightenment.
