Psychoanalysis and state terror in Argentina

Article Abstract:

The campaign of state terror conducted by the military government of Argentina from 1976-1983 resulted in severe psychological damage. Although psychoanalysis was a specific target of the military regime, analysts were witnesses to the effects of torture, disappearing people and other aspects of state terror, which fostered paranoia, denial, displaced aggression and arrested mourning. Analysts who worked with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo attested to the psychological benefits of political activism. The Argentine experience demonstrates the impossibility of professional neutrality.

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Commentary on "Psychoanalysis and state terror in Argentina." (Nancy Caro Hollander, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 52, p. 273, 1992)

Article Abstract:

Nancy Caro Hollander's discussion of psychoanalysis under state terror has implications that go beyond the specific case of Argentina. It suggests the dangerous possibility that analytic neutrality could result in complicity with an immoral political regime. Psychoanalysis should not become a tool to allow people to adapt to a repressive authoritarian state. Political immorality should be challenged by psychoanalysts as by any decent person.

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Reflections on psychoanalysis, creativity, and Jackson Pollock

Article Abstract:

Jackson Pollock's drawings were influenced by Jungian therapists and reveals traces of psychoanalytic reasoning. The creative arts were influenced in a psychoanalytical way and Pollock's drawings reflect his mental state at various periods of his life.

Analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Pollock, Jackson, Psychoanalysis and art, Psychology and art

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