Psychoanalysis and academia

The case of Angel Garma and the university of Buenos Aires

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ID8971070
AuthorsMiguel Huertas‐maestro (0000-0002-8513-2293, Instituto de Historia, corresponding author), Silvia Lévy Lazcano (0000-0002-2853-2565, Institut d'Història de la Ciència, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IHC-UAB), Barcelona, Spain), Rafael Huertas (0000-0002-4543-7180, Instituto de Historia Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)
Year2022
Volume103
Issue6
Pages1002-1024
Publication date2022-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00207578.2022.2119145
PMID36533651
OpenAlexW4312019530
LanguageEN
References cited29

The Spanish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ángel Garma-exiled in Argentina after the Spanish Civil War-was one of the founders and the first president of the Argentinian Psychoanalytical Association. Garma unsuccessfully tried to become a university lecturer on three occasions. His final attempt was in 1965, when he applied for a professorship in deep psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires. The application he submitted for this professorship position has been located in Ángel Garma's personal archive. The aim of this article is to analyse this manuscript to search for clues about the author's relationship with his own work and to explain the priorities and interests he intended to explore in the university environment. The first part of the article analyses the content of his application for the professorship, contrasting this content with published work and reviewing the fundamental lines of Garma's psychoanalytical thought (child sexuality, psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine, the psychoanalytical institution, etc.). The second part suggests the main reasons why Garma failed in his attempts to become a university lecturer

Human sexuality · Institution · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Social science · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Psychological Treatments and Disorders · Psychology · Psychology Research and Bibliometrics

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