Psychoanalysis in Argentina has been established as a profession since the foundation of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (1942), and the perspective of Melanie Klein initially predominated. Before that institutional event, Freud’s theories were considered in a more far-reaching and less homogeneous intellectual and medical field. At the beginning of the 20th century, Freud’s first readers in Argentina were strongly influenced by French culture and science. Although the initial mention of Freud’s work was by a Chilean doctor, Germán Greve, intellectuals such as José Ingenieros or Enrique Mouchet also read him from a critical perspective. In the 1950s and 1960s, consolidated psychoanalytic institutional spaces had been developed in Buenos Aires, while in the other provinces there was still the gestation of the institutional field that would allow the specific training of psychoanalysts. In two of the most important cities, Córdoba and Rosario, psychoanalysis was adopted by a group of intellectuals, physicians, and judges linked to the University Reform movement. Deodoro Roca, Jorge Orgaz, Saúl Taborda, Juan Filloy, and Gregorio Bermann adopted the Viennese theories, albeit from different perspectives. In Rosario, the figure of Pizarro Crespo not only integrated Freud’s ideas into a psychosomatic perspective, but, in an unsuspected way, constitutes the first reference to Jacques Lacan’s work in Argentina. Toward the 1960s, the creation of undergraduate psychology programs was marked by the presence of notable teachers linked to psychoanalysis. Around the same time, a new paradigm was introduced into psychoanalysis: Lacanianism. Within the framework of the reception of structuralism, the theories of Louis Althusser and the first discussions of Lacan’s teaching began to spread. This new paradigm had a decisive impact on different professional fields and varying social sciences in the country. While Oscar Masotta became one of the main disseminators of Lacan in Buenos Aires, Raúl Sciarretta and Rafael Paz were more relevant in other provinces of the country, particularly in the cities of Córdoba, Rosario, and Tucumán, cities where the institutionalization of psychoanalysis was strengthened from the 1970s onwards.

Virgilio Ducceschi y el primer laboratorio de psicología experimental en Córdoba, Argentina (1907) Virgilio Ducceschi and the first laboratory of experimental psychology in Córdoba, Argentine (1907) Virgilio Ducceschi e o primeiro laboratório de psicologia experimental em Córdoba, Argentina (1907)

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Historia cultural de la psiquiatría en Córdoba, Argentina: recepción y decadencia de la neurastenia, TRASHUMANTE | Revista Americana de Historial Social 5 (enero-junio 2015): 288-309. ISSN 2322-9381 Historia cultural de la psiquiatría en Córdoba, Argentina: recepción y decadencia de la neurastenia, 1894-1936Resumen: Esta investigación tiene por objetivo reconstruir históricamente la introducción de la neurastenia en Córdoba.A su vez, explora el fenómeno más amplio de difusión de las ideas psicológicas francesas. Ambos fenómenos constituyen un proceso de jerarquización de la figura del médico a partir de nuevos saberes sobre la enfermedad mental. Se explica el surgimiento de las nuevas técnicas de tratamiento: la hipnosis, la sugestión y la psicoterapia. Esta reconstrucción parte de una metodología que propone una historia cultural de la psiquiatría, la cual contempla los aspectos culturales singulares que moldean el proceso de recepción de ideas y prácticas francesas en Córdoba (1885-1920).Palabras clave: historia cultural, neurastenia, medicina, Córdoba. Keywords: cultural history, neurasthenia, medicine, Córdoba História cultural da psiquiatria em Córdoba, Argentina: recepção e decadência da neurastenia, Cultural History of Psychiatry in 1894-1936Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a reconstrução histórica da introdução da neurastenia em Córdoba. Ao mesmo tempo, explora o fenômeno mais amplo de difusão das ideias psicológicas francesas. Ambos os fenômenos se constroem num processo de hierarquização da figura do médico a partir de novos saberes sobre a doença mental.Expõe-se o surgimento das novas técnicas de tratamento: hipnose, sugestão e psicoterapia. Esta reconstrução surge de uma metodologia que propõe uma historia cultural da psiquiatria, a qual contempla os aspectos culturais singulares que moldam o processo de recepção de ideias e práticas francesas em Córdoba (1885Córdoba ( -1920.

r e s u m e n El trabajo se enmarca dentro de los estudios de recepción de las ideas psicológicas en Argentina. Se aborda la figura y la obra del médico y fisiólogo alemán Georg Nicolai, exiliado pacifista que se instala en la ciudad de Cór-doba entre 1922 y 1927. Se estudia el período de formación con el fisiólogo ruso Iván Pavlov y el impacto de la difusión de sus ideas en Córdoba, Argentina. A su vez se estudian las redes intelectuales con las que tuvo contacto y se muestran los espacios institucionales y editoriales que posibilitaron la mencionada difusión. Palabras claveCórdoba; Pavlov; recepción; Nicolai a b s t r a c t This is a study about reception of psychological ideas in Argentina. It approaches the figure and work of the German physician and physiologist Georg Nicolai, exiled and settled in the city of Cordoba between 1922 and 1927. We study the training period with the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov and the impact of ideas spreading in Cordoba, Argentina. We study the intellectual networks which he had contact with and the institutional spaces that enabled that spreading of psychological knowledge.