Overview
- Offers a critical reflexive history of psychoanalysis in Brazil
- Features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in Brazil
- Addresses the lacunae of English-language scholarship on Brazilian psychoanalysis
- Draws on ‘internal’ histories and psychoanalytic perceptions, in addition to an understanding of the situated sociality of the Brazilian psychoanalytic and academic movement
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Prelude
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Methodological Issues
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Specific Histories of Psychoanalysis in Brazil
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About this book
This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters address some central questions about psychoanalysis’ social role. How did psychoanalysis develop and flourish in a society in which modernisation was accompanied by inequality, authoritarianism and violence? How did psychoanalysis survive in Brazil alongside censorship and repression? Through a variety of lenses, the contributors demonstrate how psychoanalysis in Brazil presented itself as progressive and transformative and maintained this self-image even as it developed institutional structures that reproduce the authoritarianism of the wider society.
This novel work offers rich conceptual and practical insights for academic researchers and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and addresses methodological questions of concern to academics working across the social sciences. Crucially, it also outlines a distinctive vision of psychoanalysis seen through a Brazilian lens, which will be of interest to readers seeking to confront the Eurocentric and North American bias of much psychoanalytic debate.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Belinda Mandelbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Work Psychology at the Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.
Rafael Alves Lima is Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis
Editors: Belinda Mandelbaum, Stephen Frosh, Rafael Alves Lima
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78509-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78508-6Published: 14 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78511-6Published: 15 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78509-3Published: 12 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 353
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis, History of Psychology, Postcolonial Philosophy, Latin American History, Cultural History