Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker.

In Brazil, psychoanalysis received a major boost in the 1970’s, especially from the
period of redemocratization of the country, known as abertura, only over in recent years.
During the abertura process we noted the expansion of three major perspectives in Brazil:
critical psychoanalysis (associated to Marxism and the Catholic left), the English
psychoanalysis of Klein, Bion and Winicott, and Lacan psychoanalysis. The strong
presence of psychoanalysis in Brazilian culture and society is quite intriguing if we
consider our peripheral position in the intellectual geopolitics of our time.