Introduction to the paper by Madeleine and Willy Baranger: The analytic situation as a dynamic field

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1. Translated by Susan Rogers.

Notes

1. Translated by Susan Rogers.

2. See Baranger M and Baranger W (1961–62).

3. Born Madeleine Louise Coldefy.

4. The document founding the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association was signed in 1942, and acceptance as a Component Society of the IPA arrived in 1949. The Psychoanalytic Association of Uruguay was constituted in 1955 and accepted as a Component of the IPA at the International Congress in Edinburgh in 1961.

5. Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

6. Isidore Ducasse, a Franco‐Uruguayan poet, author of Cantos de Maldoror [Songs of Maldoror], was born in Montevideo in 1846 and died in Paris in 1870.

7. In 1948, Racker presented the paper The neurosis of countertransference, later published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis as A contribution to the problem of counter‐transference (Racker, 1953), apparently without any knowledge of the work of Paula Heimann.

8. As I wrote elsewhere (de León, 2000), Madeleine and Willy Baranger’s position generated debates in the FEPAL Congresses in 1964 and 1966, between their perspective and that of Leo Rangell, a representative of ego psychology, which considered the only valid viewpoint was the patient’s intra‐psychic perspective (Etchegoyen, 1986).

9. “La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers /Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles; /L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles/ Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers. Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent /Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, /Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, /Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent” (Baudelaire, Correspondances) (L. Álvarez de Toledo, 1954[1996], p. 299).

10. Serge Leclaire gave seminars in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in 1972, discussing his own thinking, in which he developed ideas central to the thought of J. Lacan.