Keywords
psychoanalysis
Chile
medical circle
Germán Greve Schlegel
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Abstract
The present article extends the historical precedents of one of the first references on the psychoanalysis in Latin America: the dissertation of the Chilean doctor Germán Greve Schlegel in Buenos Aires in 1910. It is verified, based on historical primary sources, how Greve would have taken contact with the Freudism from ends of the 19th century, describing the specific frame of this meeting and details are analyzed on the participation of this doctor in the medical Chilean scene. This work defines to the psychoanalysis as a system of ideas and beliefs of transnational character, which reception in any local space involves an active process of reading, reintepretation and adjustment to the different realities those who are inserted.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.