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Occult Couches in the Pampa: Reviewing Three Recent Books on Twentieth-Century Argentina

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ARGENTINA ON THE COUCH: PSYCHIATRY, STATE, AND SOCIETY, 1880 TO THE PRESENT. Edited by Plotkin Mariano. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. 287.)

EVIL, MADNESS, AND THE OCCULT IN ARGENTINE POETRY. By Nicholson Melanie. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002. Pp. xxi+201.)

FREUD IN THE PAMPAS: THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PSYCHOANALYTIC CULTURE IN ARGENTINA. By Plotkin Mariano. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. 314. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Christian Gundermann*
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College
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References

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