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1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) |
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Latin American voices |
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Latin American voices.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- On Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Physiology and Psychology in Russia and the USSR: A Synopsis (1897-1952) -- 2.1 Pavlov's Psychophysiology and the Bolsheviks -- 2.2 Marxist Psychology: From the Experimental Psychology Institute to Vygotsky -- 2.3 Soviet Psychology Under Stalinism -- 2.4 Pavlov According to Stalinist Science -- References -- Chapter 3: The Rise of Argentine Pavlovism: Early Readings, Appropriations, and Controversies (1936-1960) |
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3.1 Freud, Pavlov, and the Renewal of Psychological Science -- 3.2 Pavlov and the Argentine Psychoanalysts -- 3.3 Extensions of Freudopavlovism -- 3.4 Anti-fascism and Communism as Precedents of Pavlovism -- 3.5 The Reception of Stalinist Science -- 3.6 Pavlov in the Marxist-Leninist Canon -- 3.7 Political and Disciplinary Changes in the USSR and Argentina -- 3.8 The Partisan Critique of Psychoanalysis -- 3.9 Pavlov and the "Communist Identity" -- References -- Chapter 4: Clinic, Psychology, and Politics (1951-1974) -- 4.1 Pavlovianism and Clinical Practices |
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4.2 The Renewal of Soviet Science: Cybernetics, Physiology, and Psychology -- 4.3 Itzigsohn and the Partial Renewal of Local Pavlovianism -- 4.4 The Politicization of Psychotherapies -- 4.5 Thénon's Psicología Dialéctica: Ideology and Psychotherapy -- 4.6 Ramifications of Pavlovian Psychotherapies -- 4.7 Pavlov, Vygotsky, and School Dyslexia -- 4.8 The Pavlovian Clinical Work in Argentina -- References -- Chapter 5: Crisis and Decline of Argentine Pavlovism (1963-1977) -- 5.1 Pavlovian Psychiatry and Communist Judaism -- 5.2 The Intellectual Limits of the CPA: Gramsci, Rubinstein, and Anokhin |
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5.3 Pavlovianism in the University -- 5.4 The Plenary Session of Communist Psychiatrists -- 5.5 Itzigsohn and the Rediscovery of Vygotsky -- 5.6 Militant Psychology: Caparrós and Wallon -- 5.7 The International Crisis of Communism and the Rift of Argentine Pavlovian Psychiatry -- 5.8 The CPA as an Intellectual Niche Until 1966 -- 5.9 Communist Psychiatrists and Left-Wing Psychoanalysts' Rapprochement -- 5.10 Bassin and the Soviet Rediscovery of the Unconscious -- 5.11 Bassin and Langer: A Meeting and a Horizon -- 5.12 Soviet-Style Critique of the Unconscious and Marginalization of Pavlovianism |
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5.13 Science and Marxism Reconsidered: Althusserian Epistemology -- 5.14 The Experience of Pavlovism: A Balance -- References -- Chapter 6: From Pavlovism to Vygotskianism (1980-1991) -- 6.1 Vygotsky's Transnational Circulation: From the USSR to the USA and Spain -- 6.2 The USSR and the CPA in the 1980s -- 6.3 Soviet Psychology in Argentina in the 1980s -- 6.4 Crisis of the Soviet Psychology and Vygotsky's Implantation in Spanish -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusions -- Index |
| Summary |
This book presents an intellectual history of the reception of Soviet psychology in Argentina as part of the communist scientific culture promoted by the Argentine Communist Party. This research reconstructs the material conditions, the political conjunctures and disciplinary disputes that allowed the international circulation of the works and ideas of Ivan Pavlov and Lev Vygotsky, and analyzes how pavlovism and vygotskianism impacted psychology, psychiatry and the wider mental health field in Argentina between 1935 and 1991. Starting on the 1930s, a group of professionals, scientists and intellectuals who belonged to the Argentine Communist Party introduced Soviet psychology in Argentina as an effort to promote the philosophical and political principles of Marxism-Leninism in Argentinean psychological and psychiatric academic circles, as well as in mental health institutions. This book shows how the efforts of this group contributed to the diffusion of communist scientific ideas and practices in South America as part of a transnational circuit of communist scholars and intellectuals that included France, Spain and the USA, which fostered scientific exchange and politicized science during the years of antifascist struggle and the Cold War. Communist Psychology in Argentina: Transnational Politics, Scientific Culture and Psychotherapy (1935-1991) will be of interest to historians of psychology and psychiatry concerned with the study of the relationship between Marxism and psychology in the 20th century, as well as to historians of science in general attentive to the study of the circulation of scientific ideas, as the book reconstructs the networks of the international communist movement as an effort to provide a scientific basis for the development of a socialist program in different parts of the world |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 31, 2022) |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Argentina -- History
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Communism and psychology -- Argentina
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Communism and psychology
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Psychology
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Argentina
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031156212 |
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3031156218 |
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