Truth, Reality, and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis

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by  Sergio Lewkowicz, Silvia Flechner

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TRUTH, REALITY,
AND THE PSYCHOANALYST
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY
General Editor: Emma Piccioli
IPA Publications Committee
Emma Piccioli (Florence), Chair; Salman Akhtar (Philadelphia); Sergio Lewkowicz
(Porto Alegre); Peter Wegner (Tu bingen); Otto F. Kernberg (White Plains), Consultant;
Piers Pendred (London), Ex-officio as Director General; Cesare Sacerdoti (London),
Ex-officio as Publications Director
Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism
edited by Sverre Varvin & Vam1k D. Volkan
Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis
edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Anna Ursula Dreher,
& Jorge Canestri
TRUTH, REALITY,
AND THE PSYCHOANALYST
Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis
Edited by
Sergio Lewkowicz & Silvia Flechner
Foreword by
Daniel H. Wid!Ocher & Claudio Laks Eizirik
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CONTENTS
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY
IPA Publications Committee Vll
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
PREFACE Xl
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xv
FOREWORD
Daniel H. Widlacher & Claudio Laks Eizirik XXl
1 Psychoanalysis in Latin America:
an approximation to the history and ideas
R. Horacio Etchegoyen & Samuel Zysman 1
2 Countertransference and vulnerability of the analyst
Beatriz de Leon & Ricardo Bernardi 23
COMMENTARY Otto Kernberg 42
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3 Field theory
Madeleine Baranger 49
The confrontation between generations
as a dynamic field
Luis Kancyper 72
COMMENTARY Antonina Ferro 87
4 Psychoanalysis and linguistics: is dialogue possible?
Susana Vinocur-Fischbein 97
COMMENTARY Jorge Canestri 125
5 The experience of truth in clinical psychoanalysis
Antonio Muniz de Rezende 133
COMMENTARY James S. Grotstein 148
6 External reality/ internal reality: a real dichotomy?
Juan Francisco Jordan-Moore 157
COMMENTARY Neville Symington 177
7 Current psychoanalytic practice:
psychic zones and the processes ofunconscientization
Norberto C. Marucco 181
COMMENTARY Cesar Botella 201
8 Dreams and the unconscious in clinical practice
Alejandro Tamez-Morales 213
COMMENTARY H. Shmuel Erlich 229
9 Child and adolescent psychoanalysis in Latin America
Virginia Ungar 237
COMMENTARY Florence Guignard 260
REFERENCES 265
INDEX 291
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY
IPA Publications Committee
The International Psychoanalysis Library, published under the aegis
of the International Psychoanalytical Association, is the product of
the editorial policy of the IPA Publications Committee: to serve the
interests of the membership and increase the awareness of the rele-
vance of the discipline in related professional and academic circles,
and to do so through a continuity of publications so that the benefits
of psychoanalytic research can be shared across a wide audience.
The focus of the Library is on the scientific developments of today
throughout the IPA, with an emphasis within the discipline on clini-
cal, technical, and theoretical advances; empirical, conceptual, and
historical research projects; the outcome of investigations conducted
by IPA committees and working parties; selected material arising
from conferences and meetings; and investigations at the interface
with social and cultural expressions.
Emma Piccioli
Chair, IPA Publications Committee
VII

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The project of this book was a suggestion from the IPA Publications
Committee, the aim being to make known the similarities and dif-
ferences between Latin American psychoanalysis and that which
is practised elsewhere, seeking to highlight wherever possible what
distinguishes the former. This project was based on the recognition
of the importance of Latin American psychoanalytic ideas and the
relatively limited knowledge of them in other areas of world psy-
choanalysis.
We would like to thank the following members of the Inter-
national Psychoanalytical Association Publications Committee for
inviting us to be the editors of this publication: Emma Piccioli (chair-
person), Peter Wegner, and Salman Akhtar. We are also grateful for
the tireless dedication and professional help of Cesare Sacerdoti and
Rhosyn Tuta, as well as the availability of Klara King in the production
of this book.
Our thanks also go to the authors and discussants for their coop-
eration, understanding, and collaboration with their tasks. Finally,
but by no means least, our thanks must go to FEPA L and their
President, Serapio Marcano, for their support in the production of
the Spanish edition of the book, which is of utmost importance to
Latin America.
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