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de apasionados debates en los círculos intelectuales y psiquiátricos. A fines de 1942 se funda la Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina promovida por un entusiasta grupo local y dos analistas formados en Europa, lo que denomino el período institucional. Es en el período de consolidación que el psicoanálisis argentino alcanza una cumbre de fertilidad creativa con los nombres más trascendentes e ideas más originales. La crisis de los años 70 coincide con las convulsiones ideológicas mundiales y la irrupción de nuevos paradigmas. El período actual muestra un exuberante repertorio de paradigmas y prácticas y una abundante y desordenada oferta que contrasta con una magra demanda de atención psicoanalítica.
Summary Psychoanalysis in Argentina. Samuel Arbiser The interest aroused by the weight, at an international level, of the Argentine psychoanalytic experience, motivated my attempt to write a chronicle of the historical evolution and current status of psychoanalytical practice in Argentina from a broad perspective. In order to facilitate the exposition of these developments, I have divided them into several periods, linked to some extent to the rather difficult evolution of the social, cultural and political context of the country. During the pre-institutional period, psychoanalysis, which had become known through the 1922 Spanish translation of Freud´s works, was the subject of passionate debates in the intellectual and psychiatric circles. The Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, promoted by an enthusiastic local group and by two analysts trained in Europe, was created at the end of 1942; I have termed this stage the institutional period. During the subsequent period of consolidation, Argentine psychoanalysis reached a peak of creative fecundity that includes the most transcendent names and the most original ideas. The crisis of the 1970s coincided with ideological upheavals worldwide, and with the emergence of new paradigms. The current period shows an exuberant repertory of