Bio
Mariano Ben Plotkin has a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a senior researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (Argentina) and Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Before that, he taught at Harvard University, Colby College and Boston University. He published extensively on the history of psychoanalysis, particularly in Argentina and Brazil. His books include: Freud in the Pampas (Stanford University Press, 2001; Spanish translation: Buenos Aires, 2003); Histoire de la Psychanalyse en Argentine (Paris: Campagne Première, 2010); in collaboration with Mariano Ruperthuz: Estimado Dr. Freud (Buenos Aires Edhasa, in print) and was the editor of: Argentina on the Couch (University of New Mexico Press); and with Joy Damousi: Transnational Unconscious (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009) and Psychoanalytic Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is the director of a research group on the history of the psy cultures and knowledge at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social and the editor of the on-line journal CulturasPsi/PsyCultures (www.culturaspsi.org).
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Publications
Books
Plotkin, Mariano Ben and Mariano Ruperthuz, Estimado Dr. Freud. Una historia cultural del psicoanálisis en América Latina (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2017).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben & Joy Damousi (eds), Psychoanalysis and Politics. Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, Histoire de la Psychanalyse en Argentine. Une réussite singulière (Paris: Campagne Première, 2010).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben & Joy Damousi, The Transnational Unconscious. Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Trasnationalism (London: Palgrave, 2009).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, Freud in the Pampas: The Formation of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina, 1910-1983 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Spanish translation: Freud en las Pampas (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2003).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben (ed.), Argentines on the Couch. Psychiatry, Society and the State in Argentina, 1880-1970 (University of New Mexico Press, 2003).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben & Joy Damousi (eds), Psychoanalysis and Politics. Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, Histoire de la Psychanalyse en Argentine. Une réussite singulière (Paris: Campagne Première, 2010).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben & Joy Damousi, The Transnational Unconscious. Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Trasnationalism (London: Palgrave, 2009).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, Freud in the Pampas: The Formation of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina, 1910-1983 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Spanish translation: Freud en las Pampas (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2003).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben (ed.), Argentines on the Couch. Psychiatry, Society and the State in Argentina, 1880-1970 (University of New Mexico Press, 2003).
Selected articles and book chapters
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “El psicoanálisis como sistema de creencias: un bosquejo de programa de investigación”, HIstória, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (Forthcoming, 2017).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Diffusion de la psychanalyse et dictature en Amérique Latine. L´Argentine dans les années 1960-1970” in González Bernaldo y Liliane Hilaire-Peréz (eds.), Les savoirs-mondes. Mobilité et circulation des savoirs depuis le Moyen Âge (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Los vivos, los muertos y el pasado: psicoanálisis e historia” Calibán. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicoanálisis, vol 12 (1), 2014.
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Historia y Psicoanálisis. Encuentros y desencuentros” CulturasPsi/PsyCultures, 1 (1) (sept. 2013).
Plotkin, Mariano, “On Psychoanalysis and its history: some reflections from the South” in Segal, Naomi (ed.), Vissisitudes. Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis (London: IGRS, 2013).
Plotkin, Mariano, “Introduction” to dossier, “The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Latin America” Psychoanalysis and History 14 (2) (Julio 2012).
Plotkin, Mariano, “The Diffusion of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Political Authoritarianism. The Case of Argentina (1960s and 1970s)” in Damousi and Plotkin (eds.), Psychoanalysis and Politics.
Plotkin, Mariano, “José Bleger: Jew, Marxist and Psychoanalyst” Psychoanalysis and History, 13 (2) (July 2011).
Plotkin, Mariano, “Psychoanalysis, Race Relations and National Identity: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Brazil (1910-1940)” in Anderson, Warwick, Richard Keller, and Deborah Jenson (eds.) Unconscious Dominions (Durham: Duke Univesity Press, 2011).
Plotkin, Mariano, Н ημέρα που επινοήθηχε περουισμός. Η χατασχευή της 17ης Οχτωβριου in Damilakou, Maria (ed), Θέματα χαι τάσεις της σύγχρουης Δατιυοαμεριχαυιχής Ιστοριογραφίας (Athens, 2010).
Potkin, Mariano, “Psicoanálisis y habitus nacional: un enfoque comparativo de la recepción del psicoanálisis en Argentina y Brasil (1910-1950)” Memoria y Sociedad, Vol 13, n 27 (Bogotá), (Julio-Diciembre, 2009).
Plotkin, Mariano y Sergio Visacovsky, “Los psicoanalistas y la crisis, la crisis del psicoanálisis” en Quimeras. Cuando la literatura sabe, ve, piensa. Cahiers de LI.RI.CO. n° 4 (2009), Julio Premat (ed.), Saint-Denis: Université Paris 8.
Plotkin, Mariano, ‘Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil’ (1910s-1940s)” en Damousi y Plotkin (eds.), The Transnational Unconscious .
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Diffusion de la psychanalyse et dictature en Amérique Latine. L´Argentine dans les années 1960-1970” in González Bernaldo y Liliane Hilaire-Peréz (eds.), Les savoirs-mondes. Mobilité et circulation des savoirs depuis le Moyen Âge (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015).
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Los vivos, los muertos y el pasado: psicoanálisis e historia” Calibán. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicoanálisis, vol 12 (1), 2014.
Plotkin, Mariano Ben, “Historia y Psicoanálisis. Encuentros y desencuentros” CulturasPsi/PsyCultures, 1 (1) (sept. 2013).
Plotkin, Mariano, “On Psychoanalysis and its history: some reflections from the South” in Segal, Naomi (ed.), Vissisitudes. Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis (London: IGRS, 2013).
Plotkin, Mariano, “Introduction” to dossier, “The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Latin America” Psychoanalysis and History 14 (2) (Julio 2012).
Plotkin, Mariano, “The Diffusion of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Political Authoritarianism. The Case of Argentina (1960s and 1970s)” in Damousi and Plotkin (eds.), Psychoanalysis and Politics.
Plotkin, Mariano, “José Bleger: Jew, Marxist and Psychoanalyst” Psychoanalysis and History, 13 (2) (July 2011).
Plotkin, Mariano, “Psychoanalysis, Race Relations and National Identity: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Brazil (1910-1940)” in Anderson, Warwick, Richard Keller, and Deborah Jenson (eds.) Unconscious Dominions (Durham: Duke Univesity Press, 2011).
Plotkin, Mariano, Н ημέρα που επινοήθηχε περουισμός. Η χατασχευή της 17ης Οχτωβριου in Damilakou, Maria (ed), Θέματα χαι τάσεις της σύγχρουης Δατιυοαμεριχαυιχής Ιστοριογραφίας (Athens, 2010).
Potkin, Mariano, “Psicoanálisis y habitus nacional: un enfoque comparativo de la recepción del psicoanálisis en Argentina y Brasil (1910-1950)” Memoria y Sociedad, Vol 13, n 27 (Bogotá), (Julio-Diciembre, 2009).
Plotkin, Mariano y Sergio Visacovsky, “Los psicoanalistas y la crisis, la crisis del psicoanálisis” en Quimeras. Cuando la literatura sabe, ve, piensa. Cahiers de LI.RI.CO. n° 4 (2009), Julio Premat (ed.), Saint-Denis: Université Paris 8.
Plotkin, Mariano, ‘Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil’ (1910s-1940s)” en Damousi y Plotkin (eds.), The Transnational Unconscious .