title: Clinical Praxis and the Place of the Analyst: A Chilean Perspective.
abstract: Since its inception, psychoanalytic theory has considered that, conceptually, it is impossible to maintain the division between the individual and society and that the constitution of one necessarily involves the other. Despite this clear legacy of Freudian thought, followed by most of the first and second generations of psychoanalysts, analytic clinical practice started to change almost exclusively into private practice by later generations of psychoanalysts. As a result, a space for information, data gathering, and theoretical production has been gradually configured that is structured in a slanted way. An analytic working environment has thus developed in Chile that tends to eschew contributions from other disciplines that could both enrich and challenge psychoanalytic theoretical-technical developments.
authors.affiliation: , Avda. Las Condes 9792 ap. 1203 Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. juanfloresr@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Flores
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy
keywords: Chilean perspective; isolation of psychoanalysts from society; psychoanalysis and politics; socially responsive psychoanalytic discipline