ABSTRACT
Hollander explores social themes in Argentine, Chilean, and Uruguayan history whose diverse but overlapping institutional and cultural characteristics forged the political and economic tensions that would lead ultimately to the era of state terror throughout the region from the 1960s through the 1990s. Hollander’s analysis is illuminated through her description of living in Argentina during the years leading up to that country’s military coup in 1976, and she provides firsthand accounts in all three countries by prominent psychoanalysts Juan Carlos Volnovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Marem and Marcelo Viñar, who relate their personal and professional biographies in light of their countries’ tumultuous political histories. Their testimonies serve to highlight Hollander’s analysis of the impact of colonial structures, class and ethnic instability, and wide-ranging political ideologies that would help to shape these countries’ psychoanalytic movements oriented toward explicating the social contextualization of psychic interiority.
