La dictadura militar en la historia oficial del psicoanálisis chileno: Sobre la construcción de un pathos discursivo

Drawing from the analysis of a controversy developed before the Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, held in Santiago, Chile, in 1999, this article attempts to retrace the ways in which the military dictatorship appears in the corpus of texts with historical inspiration produced within the Chilean Psychoanalytical Association. The building of a discursive pathos is thus revealed, characterized by denial, hasty search for consensus and the use of euphemisms. Nevertheless, not only from the ghosts of the local psychoanalytic society is this pathos constructed. It also feeds on institutional policies implemented by the International Association since Nazism and on the rhetoric of reconciliation elaborated in Chile since the recovery of democracy.