For Adam, the blog is an opportunity for structured play with the objects, images, texts, and narratives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I focus on the built environment, and the layers of meaning present in objects like buildings, infrastructural networks, and public statues.

For Tory, the blog provides a space for exploration of a psychological paradigm that is seen as all but defunct in the United States, yet flourishes still in Argentina, the country characterized as having the highest rate per capita of psychologists…in the world. In Buenos Aires Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis is not just the most popular form of psychotherapy performed; it is a way of life.  Porteños—citizens of Buenos Aires—are seemingly genetically built receive psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  Concepts such as pervasive narcissism, hysteria, and neuroticism are discussed in a household manner here, as commonly as say, an anxiety disorder or ADHD is discussed in the North American home.  This fact often leaves me, in classes and in my clinical endeavors here, quite lost between the layers of language and conceptual discord that face me.  I don’t want to exaggerate—modern psychiatry as it is known in the States is practiced here, and well.  It is what lies beneath the familiar terms such as DSM-IV diagnoses,  Axis I and II disorders, and biological vulnerability—that mystifies me.  Thus here I explore what it is to wear “Freudian-Psychoanalytic glasses” and to conceive of illnesses I have been relentlessly trained to see as biologically caused, as unconscious conflicts within man’s ego, id, and superego.