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II. C. DEVELOPMENTS OF THE FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS IN LATIN AMERICA
II. Ca. The Barangers’ Classical Concept and its Roots Madeleine and Willy Baranger wrote “ The analytic situation as a dynamic field” in the early 1960’s. It is a product of their original thinking gestated in dialogue with other regional psychoanalytic contributions from the late 1940s and through 1960s. The major influences come from Enrique Pichon Rivière, Heinrich Racker, Luisa Álvarez de Toledo, Jorge Mom, Leon Grinberg and David Liberman . Moreover, there is a discernable influence of a much broader cultural context of psychoanalysis and its links with social psychology, as well as philosophical and literary ideas. The complex intertwining of various influences and the gradual emergence and development of Madeleine and Willy Barangers original conceptualization of the Psychoanalytic Field were thoroughly researched by Beatriz de Leon de Bernardi (2008). The Barangers came to Argentina from France in 1946 when the group of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA, formed in 1942), was assembling. Its pioneering members were Celes Carcamo, Guillermo Ferrari Ardoy, Angel Garma, Marie Langer, Enrique Pichon Rivière and Arnaldo Rascovsky. Willy Baranger, Professor of Philosophy and Madeleine Baranger, Professor of Classics in France (Kancyper, 1999; Melgar, 2001), underwent their psychoanalytic training in Buenos Aires. They were members of a second generation of analysts of the APA, together with Arminda Aberastury, Luisa Álvarez de Toledo, José Bleger, Leon Grinberg, Salomon Resnik, David Liberman and Jorge and Teresa Mom. The Barangers subsequently moved to Montevideo from 1954 to1965 with the aim of contributing to the constitution of the Uruguayan psychoanalytic group. In 1966, they moved back to Argentina permanently and became an integral part of the institutional life of the APA, where they worked as analysts, teachers, and promoters of psychoanalytic thinking in Latin America. The theoretical-technical concept of the dynamic field developed while the Barangers were living in Uruguay. The dynamic field conceptualizes the central phenomena of analysis seen as a profound encounter involving two subjectivities intensely committed to the task of enhancing the patient’s psychic transformations. The notion of dynamic field provided a new context that made it possible to articulate general notions of psychoanalysis such as transference, countertransference, resistance, interpretation, etc., in the phenomenological context of the concrete psychoanalytic experience (de Leon de Bernardi , 1999). The new notions that further developed from it, such as the ‘bastion’ and the ‘second look’, proved to be extremely useful for clinical work. The conception of the dynamic field also emerged partly as a response to the Barangers’ methodological and epistemological concerns regarding the problems of clinical investigation and validation in psychoanalysis. In his earlier paper, Métodos de objetivación en la investigacion psicoanalitica [Methods of achieving objectivity in psychoanalytic investigation], Willy Baranger (1959) reviewed contributions by Glover (1952), Escalona
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