Discussion of the Paper “Psychoanalysis and Tango: Complex Arts of Grief Therapy” by Dawn Farber

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This discussion focuses on one aspect of Farber’s work: the birth of the tango (this issue). The tango was created as a fusion of African and European immigrant culture in Argentina between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first twenty years of the twentieth century. The tango was one of the tools used by immigrants to socialize the pain of the loss of common roots, the lack of identity, and the sense of loneliness. The author reflects on the overlaps between tango and relational psychoanalysis, and muses on the impact of the loss of hugs and embraces in this worldwide pandemic caused by Covid and the collective trauma that it entails.

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Psychoanalysis and Tango: Complex Arts of Grief Therapy-- Psychoanalysis and Tango Dancing during This Pandemic

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Margarita Kahn

Margarita Kahn, Ph.D., has a degree in Psychology from Buenos Aires University, where she was born. She is a member, professor and supervisor at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis, ISIPSé, and is a member of IARPP. She has worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Rome since 1985 with families, adults and young adults suffering from psychiatric trauma, and migrants, and specializes in Systemic-Relational Psychotherapy. She has published articles and presented papers about the specific problems endemic to different types of migration in national and international psychoanalytic meetings.