Papers by Mariano Plotkin
Journal of Latin American cultural studies, Jul 9, 2024
Mariana Callejas (1932–2016) was an award-winning Chilean writer, active during Augusto Pinochet’... more Mariana Callejas (1932–2016) was an award-winning Chilean writer, active during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. At the same time, she and her husband, the American Michael Townley, were agents of the DINA, the Chilean intelligence service dedicated to the repression of opponents to the dictatorship. The couple was involved in several political crimes in Chile and particularly abroad, including the murder of former Unidad Popular Minister Orlando Letelier in 1976 in Washington DC. In 1995, Callejas wrote her memoirs and, after that, several fictional or semi-fictional works were published that had leading characters inspired by her. This article focuses on her autobiographical book and three fictional pieces written by leading Chilean writers (Pedro Lemebel, Roberto Bolaño, and Carlos Iturra) with a dual purpose. On the one hand, it analyses how different authors (including Callejas herself) use characters inspired by Callejas to conceptualise the relationship between literature and horror during the years of Pinochet’s dictatorship. On the other hand, the article studies how these writings thematise the tension existing in Chilean society (particularly among certain intellectual circles) between knowing, not knowing, and not wanting to know what was going on under the Pinochet regime
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios, 2018
Fil: Plotkin, Mariano Ben. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de... more Fil: Plotkin, Mariano Ben. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales; Argentina. Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social; Argentina
The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures, 2020
Memoria Y Sociedad, 2009
Resumen El artículo discutirá, a partir de un análisis comparativo de la recepción y circulación ... more Resumen El artículo discutirá, a partir de un análisis comparativo de la recepción y circulación del pensamiento psicoanalítico en Brasil y Argentina, las condiciones de posibilidad para la constitución de un sistema de ideas en uno de creencias. En particular, se pondrá énfasis en la manera en que aquello que Norbert Elias ha caracterizado como "habitus nacional" influye en la generación de patrones de circulación y apropiación de sistemas de pensamiento. El análisis se centrará en la recepción que tuvo lugar por fuera e independientemente del establecimiento de "ortodoxias" a partir de las instituciones psicoanalíticas. Por lo tanto, no se incluirá en el artículo una discusión sobre la evolución del psicoanálisis "institucionalizado". Aunque la recepción del psicoanálisis (o de cualquier sistema de ideas) constituye un fenómeno multidimensional, se pondrá énfasis en tres espacios de recepción: círculos médicos, circuitos de vanguardia cultural y las ciencias sociales. Se mostrará cómo distintas grillas de interpretación de la realidad social establecidas durante el siglo xix, así como también tradiciones intelectuales y académicas preexistentes en ambos países, abrieron líneas de recepción y formas particulares de apropiación del sistema freudiano. Con esto, se cuestionarán las interpretaciones normativas sobre la difusión de sistemas de ideas.
Anuario Iehs Instituto De Estudios Historico Sociales, 2006
Memoria Y Sociedad, Jul 1, 2009
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2014
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Memoria y Sociedad, 2009
... A principios de los años cuarenta, Ernest Jones, quien fuera presidente de la Asociación Psic... more ... A principios de los años cuarenta, Ernest Jones, quien fuera presidente de la Asociación Psicoanalítica Internacional (IPA), señalaba a los miembros ... y déjennos comparar la opinión de Freud sobre la etiología primera de las neurosis con la que [Pierre] Janet ha emitido sobre ...
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... interdisciplinario Aduanas del Conocimiento La traducción y la constitución de las disciplina... more ... interdisciplinario Aduanas del Conocimiento La traducción y la constitución de las disciplinas entre el Centenario y el Bicentenario Mariano Ben Plotkin ... El economista (el ministro de hacienda) diría José Terry -profesor de Finanzas y dos veces Ministro de Hacienda entre otros ...
The Americas, 1999
How does one write the history of psychoanalysis? Although the question seems too broad it is sti... more How does one write the history of psychoanalysis? Although the question seems too broad it is still pertinent. In countries like Argentina, where psychoanalysis has become a Weltanschauung, traditional approaches from the history of science, the history of ideas or institutional history are insufficient to give a full account of its cultural implantation. There is a level of cultural reception that is unaccounted for by those approximations but which is, nevertheless, a constitutive component of the history of the discipline. Although some authors have identified a common “latin pattern” in the reception of psychoanalysis, national differences sometimes overcome similarities. Whereas psychoanalysis, for instance, started to be discussed in Argentine medical circles as early as in the 1910s, it did not have the influence in avant-garde literature that it had in France or Brazil. However, since the early 1920s psychoanalysis had an impact in popular magazines and publications in Bueno...
Psychoanalysis and History, 2011
The article analyses the trajectory of Dr José Bleger (1922–72), an Argentine psychoanalyst who t... more The article analyses the trajectory of Dr José Bleger (1922–72), an Argentine psychoanalyst who tried to articulate his triple identity as a Jew, a Marxist and a psychoanalyst. Bleger played a central role in the constitution of the ‘psy movement’ and, in more general terms, in the diffusion of a ‘psy culture’ in Argentina, a country that today is considered as one of the ‘world capitals of psychoanalysis’. However, his trajectory showed not only the limits of his projects in the increasingly politically polarized Argentina of the 1960s, as well as their internal contradictions, but also the difficulties of articulating different identities in those agitated times. Through an analysis of Bleger's trajectory this article explores larger issues of Argentine political culture and their relations with the emergence of a psychoanalytic culture.
Journal of Urban History, 2003
Peronism has been the most (although not necessarily the best) studied political phenomenon in co... more Peronism has been the most (although not necessarily the best) studied political phenomenon in contemporary Argentine history. Since the 1960s, Peronism has been considered by social scientists as the paradigm of populism, the typical product of Latin American urban politics that originated in the 1940s. After the fall of Perón in 1955, searching for an explanation of Peronism, its origins and survival, became almost an obsession for Argentine and foreign scholars, journalists, and intellectuals interested in the recent history of the country. Moreover, Juan and Eva Perón became icons in the media and popular culture in Argentina and abroad. Peronism posed an enigma for Argentine intellectuals. Perón’s regime had redefined Argentines’ political identities in such a way that (at least until the early 1980s) most political allegiances were articulated around the dichotomy of Peronism/anti-Peronism. Furthermore, despite the prediction of nearly all anti-Peronists (ranging from conservatives to communists), the organized urban working class continued to be loyal to Perón after his fall. For the anti-Peronist progressive intellectual middle class, Peronism went against the grain of the “natural historical line of development” of the country; it was perceived as a pathology. It is not by chance, thus, that until the 1970s, most studies on Peronism concentrated on the origins of the movement and on the role of the working class, seeking to solve the “enigmas of Perón and of Argentina.” As time went by, and as the first government of Perón receded into the past—the memory of it mediated by the second and traumatic Peronist experience of the early 1970s, which ended in the bloody coup of 1976—scholars started approaching Peronism with a fresh set of questions not necessarily linked to the previous obsession for explaining how and why it had been
The American Historical Review, 2008
Desarrollo Económico, 2007
... Mientras la matr?cula de la nueva Facultad crec?a, en su seno tuvieron lugar debates acad?mic... more ... Mientras la matr?cula de la nueva Facultad crec?a, en su seno tuvieron lugar debates acad?micos que fueron un primer avance en la definici?n del perfil profesional del campo de las ciencias econ?micas. Si bien estas discusiones no tuvieron mayor ...
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