TY - JOUR
T1 - Armed against Unhappiness
T2 - Psychoanalytic Grammars in Buenos Aires
AU - Brotherton, P. Sean
N1 - Funding Information:
I want to express my gratitude to Dominique Behague and Kenneth MacLeish for organizing the Global Psyche workshop. In Buenos Aires, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the participants of this research and the intellectual generosity and collegiality of the participants of the Psy Cultures group at the El Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. I would also like to acknowledge the generative feedback of Vincanne Adams, Emily Bock, and two anonymous reviewers. Research for this article was made possible by the University of Chicago (Social Science Division and Lichstern Fund) and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
Funding Information:
I want to express my gratitude to Dominique Behague and Kenneth MacLeish for organizing the Global Psyche workshop. In Buenos Aires, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the participants of this research and the intellectual generosity and collegiality of the participants of the Psy Cultures group at the El Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. I would also like to acknowledge the generative feedback of Vincanne Adams, Emily Bock, and two anonymous reviewers. Research for this article was made possible by the University of Chicago (Social Science Division and Lichstern Fund) and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the American Anthropological Association
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - 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.”.
AB - 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.”.
KW - Buenos Aires
KW - Lacan
KW - psychic life
KW - psychoanalysis
KW - well-being
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U2 - 10.1111/maq.12552
DO - 10.1111/maq.12552
M3 - Article
C2 - 32311784
AN - SCOPUS:85083636161
SN - 0745-5194
VL - 34
SP - 99
EP - 118
JO - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -