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Link psychoanalysts adhere to the ideas that Isidoro Berenstein and Janine Puget have developed in Argentina since the 1990s. Their conception might be called interlinking among desiring beings . Significant contributors to this line of thought, Rodolfo Moguillansky, Julio Moreno, and Miguel Spivacow argue that the idea of the link is present already in Bion’s work in the notion of reverie, which is based on the early psyche’s failure to process emotions. Such insufficiency requires that the mother metabolize the baby’s emotions to enable psychic growth. These authors stress that the other’s presence is necessary to metabolize and thus modify the experiences of an immature psyche so that they may be transformed into thoughts. They start from the idea of link. They consider that every steady intersubjective link is established on the basis of an experience of fusion, on the illusory belief in a meeting with someone identical or complementary: the One. Its illusory nature does not prevent the One from contributing to the structuring process. The narcissistic consistency of the One is what establishes the new group, and its effectiveness drives group members to become subjects of the link. The group created by subjects, in turn, anchors and creates unconscious places that are also a source of meaning. They generate unconscious significations that determine them, and thus produce new subjectivities. (Moguillansky, quoted in Benhaim, 2012, translation by Nemirovsky) III. Db. Historical Aspects of Intersubjective Ideas in Latin America Enrique Pichon-Rivière was a pioneer in the incorporation of other motivations into the conception of how the psyche is constituted and develops. One of the founders of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association in 1942, Pichon-Rivière was always interested in the social aspects of the mind. In 1953 he created the School of Social Psychology. His contributions are based on a social conception of human beings and are reflected in his ideas on the significance of the analytic couple as a relationship. “The link is the minimum observation unit,” he would repeatedly tell his students. The vicissitudes of the drives and defenses may be appreciated from a different angle when they are situated within a context in which the analytic link is the operational unit. From this vantage point, we can observe the phenomena that unfold in our consulting rooms. The reductionist drive/defense perspective is strongly modified when the link perspective is incorporated (with its family, microgroup, and cultural variables). These changes modify the analyst’s work during the session. Pichon-Rivière describes some motivations that lead to the establishment of links with other human beings. These are the need for self-preservation, for safety, for dependence, for protection, and for communication. This author incorporated into his theory the ideas of thinkers who had been kept on the sidelines of psychoanalysis, from Adler to the North American culturalists (Fromm, Horney, Sullivan), as well as of theoreticians from other fields, such as Kurt Lewin, who introduced the field theory that the Barangers would develop later on. From these perspectives, the formation of the unconscious and defensive manifestations are considered within an intersubjective context. Alejandro Ávila Espada (2013) points out that one of the key intersubjectively relevant contributions of Pichon-Rivière is the concept of Conceptual,
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