Abstract:
The pest in Brazil: the introduction of Freudian ideas in Brazil from medicine and modernism. This article presents the historical period of the introduction of Freudian theory in Brazil as a process that was closely related to the national intelligentsia's interests and their efforts to enhance a great cultural project that was already being conceived from the late nineteenth century. By identifying the two distinct ways of appropriation of psychoanalysis in Brazil, medicine hygienist and Brazilian modernist art, this article also indicates the impact and consequences of these two movements on the beginning of the psychoanalytical movement in Brazil.
Keywords:
Hygienist; history; modernism; psychoanalysis.