“…In some countries in the region, notably Argentina and Brazil, the development of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic practice, as an expert discourse and, to a certain extent, as "common sense" has aroused the curiosity of foreign researchers and visitors in general. So far, analyses of the evolution and development of "psy cultures," and psychoanalysis in particular, in various Latin American countries have been fragmentary and have usually treated the process of modernization-formation of the modern urban individual as a fact, rather than a problem (see Duarte, Russo, Venancio, 2005, and, in particular, the introduction to Duarte, Carvalho, 2005).…”