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My aim, in this paper, is to think about an emergent tradition of literary biographies in Latin America: biographies written by contemporary writers (1985 - 2016) about other writers' lives (the biographical production of seven novelists: Osvaldo Baigorria, Ricardo Strafacce, Fernando Vallejo, Carlos María Domínguez, Jorge Edwards, Santiago Roncagliolo y Rafael Gumucio). Specifically, this essay proposes to analyze the construction process of this tradition in regard to the emotional bonds that link certain writers with others and provide reasons to tell the life of others. The relationship between biographer and biographed shows a contiguity line founded in literary respect whose effects are contamination, transference and infection. Two lives are tensioned in the writing and formulate an imaginary and loving space where practices and mechanisms are put into place in order to appropriate someone else's memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The present paper will try to summarize the history of Latin-American psychoanalysis, which through many decades promoted, and in a certain way established, developments and conceptualizations that were recognized “officially” in Anglo-Saxon and European psychoanalysis only the past years. Or only known but not ever recognized, as such contributions permit a trough convergence between the “new” and the “older” founds. Development: The development of the paper is sustained in clinical labor, particularly themes which makes through the importance of the counter-transference in psychoanalytic session and psychoanalytic processes. Those were extensible worked from authors like Racker, the Barangers, and E. Pichón Riviere, and the river-plate psychoanalysis in general. In other words, these are conceptualizations, in between the finding of a through own subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]