Armed against Unhappiness

Psychoanalytic Grammars in Buenos Aires

Bibliographic Data

ID2288944
AuthorsP Sean Brotherton (0009-0009-9709-5061, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume34
Issue1
Pages99-118
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12552
PMID32311784
OpenAlexW3019133666
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited31

Psychoanalysis has produced an ensemble of institutions, expertise, procedures, and practices for rendering the psychoanalytic subject legible and, through this, psychic life as an actionable site of intervention, dislocation, and struggle. This article examines how diverse psychoanalytic communities in Buenos Aires have produced unique grammars that influence how individuals articulate ideas about health and well-being. Descriptive, culturally specific, historically informed, and always provisional, this grammar is empirically grounded in lived experience. Through presenting several case studies, I flesh out how this grammar, as a deictic expression of/for the unconscious is deployed, reworked, and embodied in everyday interactions. I demonstrate how psychic life is enmeshed within social and political experience. In doing so, I consider how interpersonal, existential, environmental, social, and political contingencies shape divergent notions of well-being and structure desires of what it means to live "a good life

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Everyday life · Existentialism · Politics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Subject (documents · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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