Women's participation in the introduction, diffusion and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in São Paulo

Abstract

Psychoanalysis began to be disseminated in São Paulo in 1919 through the pioneering initiatives of the psychiatrist Franco da Rocha. Influenced by these ideas, Durval Marcondes committed himself to promoting the training of psychoanalysts in Brazil, which became possible with the arrival in the country of the German psychoanalyst Adelheid Lucy Koch in 1936. From this initiative, the first group of professionals was formed who, after being analyzed by this pioneer, founded the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo in 1951. presence of several women who were prominent as pioneers of psychoanalysis, actively contributing to the introduction, dissemination and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the State of São Paulo, notably: Adelheid Lucy Koch, Virgínia Leone Bicudo, Lygia Alcântara do Amaral, Judith Seixas Teixeira de Carvalho Andreucci and Margareth Jones Gill. Thus, this research aims to understand the role played by pioneering women of the psychoanalytic movement in the State of São Paulo during the 20th century, both in the diffusion of psychoanalysis and in the adoption of practices that favor female protagonism in this period. For the execution of this objective, a contextual historical study will be carried out, based on methodological principles of the historiography of psychoanalysis, through the analysis of documents available in archives and libraries and interviews with professionals who maintained contact with pioneering women of psychoanalysis in the State. At the end of the research, it is expected to outline the context of women's participation in psychoanalysis in São Paulo, through their clinical, administrative and literary accomplishments, which influenced other generations in the psychoanalytic environment, and, in addition, to understand the meaning that their actions exercised in the process of female emancipation that took place throughout the first half of the twentieth century. (AU)