Resumen

GISSI, Jorge. Latin-American Psyche: Brief Hermeneutic Essay Based on Freud and Jung. Psykhe [online]. 2004, vol.13, n.1, pp.71-78. ISSN 0718-2228.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22282004000100006.

This article joins together some of Freud's and Jung's thesis and applies them into the Latin-American psyche. The author states that Spaniard's conquer period in America was, and still is, very different for conquerors and conquered (from a psychological and cultural point of view). From a Freudian approach, the analysis is based on the "Topica II", on the defense mechanisms theory and the Oedipus complex. In both groups, the author relates repressive conflicts, castration, projection, etc., with its familiar and psycho-political consequences. From Jung, the analysis is made with myths and symbols, which reflects a strong patriarchal component of domination and a unwholesome integration of the archetypes. This implies the low individuation, the "weak self" and the dissociations discovered by Freud.