This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.

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JOY DAMOUSI is Profesor of History and Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely in the fields of feminist history, women's history, labour history and Australian cultural and intellectual history. Her recent publications include the prize-winning Freud in the Antipodes: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia.

MARIANO PLOTKIN is a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina) and researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. He is also a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires). His books include Mañana es San Perón (1994; English edition by Scholarly Resources, 2003) and Freud in the Pampas (Stanford 2001; Spanish edition 2003). He also edited several volumes on topics related to the history of psychoanalysis and of social sciences.

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Introduction; J.Damousi and M.Plotkin PART I: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSNATIONAL MODERNISM Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare; E.A. Danto Beyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture; E.Zarestsky PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS Primitivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European visions of the Native 'Soul' in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1949; F.Gouda Fascism Becomes Desire: On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics; F.Finchelstein PART III: THE TRANSNATIONAL DIFFUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York; J.Damousi Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil' (1910s-1940s); M.B.Plotkin PART IV: CHALLENGING CENTRE AND PERIPHERY Paris-London-Buenos Aires: the Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and South America; A.Dagfal The Lacanian movement in Argentina and Brazil: the periphery becomes the center; J.Russo Origin stories, invention of genealogies and the early diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960-1980); S.Visacovsky