ABSTRACT
Hollander delves deeper into the impunity of the Bush administration’s torture practices and describes several psychoanalytically informed projects developed to treat active duty personnel, veterans, and their families. She returns to Latin America, where her psychoanalytic colleagues offer their perspectives on the U.S. response to 9/11 and their concerns about the militarization of foreign policy and its potential impact on the entire hemisphere. Each psychoanalyst offers unique perspectives on contemporary subjectivity and the impact of polarizing political conditions in both the U.S. and Latin America on individuals’ class, ethnic and gendered opportunities, and limitations. They offer insights into the political consciousness of Latin American youth, many of whom are drawn to the growing leftist nationalism of leaders such as Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. Parallel developments in the U.S. occur as the country reacts against the Bush years: Subjective awareness breaks through collective denial, mobilized by exhaustion regarding the cost of multiple wars, concerns about government surveillance, and escalating alarm in response to this country’s neoliberal economic crisis.
