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This essay reviews the following films:Aborto en Colombia / Abortion in Colombia. Dir. Nicolás Cuenca Rodríguez and Ángela Amaya Aguirre. Prod. Nicolás Cuenca Rodríguez and Ángela Amaya Aguirre. Colombia, 2021,16 min. Film is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjO46Hwokw.Fly so Far. Dir. Celina Escher. Prod. Women Make Movies and Prämfilm. El Salvador and Sweden, 2021, 88 min. Film is available on Vimeo and DVD.Las Libres: La historia después de … / Las Libres: The Story Continues. Dir. Gustavo Montaña in collaboration with Centro Las Libres. Prod. At Dusk Media. Mexico, 2014, 94 min. Film is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpW7KJblkbc.Que sea ley / Let It Be Law. Dir. Juan Solanas. Prod. Cinesur, Les Films du Sud, and Gameland. Argentina, France, and Uruguay, 2019, 86 min.

This article examines two approaches to postdictatorship cinema: trauma theory, which has been especially popular in reading this corpus, and semiotics, which has regained popularity in film analysis in general but is not often employed when analyzing postdictatorship films. The article claims that, though highly productive in the 1990s, trauma theory has become less fruitful after decades of continuous scholarship and after the emergence of administrations that have made the representation of the dictatorship the center of their public policies, such askirchnerismoin Argentina (2003–2015). While trauma theory yields ahistorical analyses, a semiotic approach that takes into account how indexical, iconic, and symbolic signs merge in the cinematic field allows for historical interpretations that are more adequate for reading postdictatorship films, especially after 2003. The article first outlines the main tenets of the two approaches (trauma theory and semiotics), then assesses their suitability for historical interpretation via a brief analysis ofAndrés no quiere dormir la siesta, a 2009 Argentine film on the country's last dictatorship.

This article examines the case of Palermo, Buenos Aires's largest and trendiest neighbourhood, and claims that psychoanalysis has acted since the mid-1970s as one of the area's gentrifiers. Based on the premise that temporality is embedded in spatial categories and that, therefore, cities are mobile phenomena, the article focuses on two interrelated spatiotemporal layers of psychoanalysis-based gentrification. It first examines the arrival and settlement of psychoanalytic associations between 1975 and 2005 to argue that analysts were important actors in Palermo's real estate transformation. Second, it explores how contemporary real estate brochures, magazines, blogs, newspapers and tourist websites create the idea that analysts gave birth to the neighbourhood and thus erase the contributions of the Black population who had lived there in the nineteenth century and of the workers who had been a vital part of the area prior to the analysts' arrival. The article also looks at the neighbourhood contemporary aesthetics to highlight that psychoanalysis is now an integral part of a spatialized identity that reaffirms socio-economic exclusion, while displaying progressive attitudes.

"This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political discourse through a collection of original interventions in the fields of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, health sciences, history, and philosophy. The authors contribute to discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic concepts to reading Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical phenomena as well as how these regionally specific dimensions challenge and transform traditional psychoanalytic notions. Firstly, the book offers a regional overview of psychoanalysis as a discourse that reflects on the imbrication between the psychic and the sociopolitical. Secondly, it showcases intersectional perspectives that illuminate psychoanalysis's potentials and limitations in addressing contemporary problematics around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, the book attests to the area's role in advancing psychoanalysis as a transnational discipline. By providing both a balanced regional overview and an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume will be essential for all psychoanalysts and scholars wanting to understand the place of psychoanalysis in Latin American and Caribbean discourse"--

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "List of Figures" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction: Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: The Road Movie in Latin America" -- "The Latin American Road Movie: Readings and Genealogies" -- "Latin American Modernity on the Road and in the Spotlight" -- "Heterogeneous Territories: Mapping Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality" -- "Regional Techniques and Local Iconographies" -- "Notes" -- "Work Cited" -- "Filmography" -- "Part I: Latin American Modernity on the Road and in the Spotlight" -- "Chapter 2: Revisiting Modernity Through the Latin American Road Movie" -- "Journeys of Discovery: Meeting Latin America's Others" -- "Changing the Path of the Nation: Progress and Revolution" -- "Global Expulsions: From Non-Place to Non-Person" -- "Roads to Modernity: Between Reality and Aspiration" -- "Notes" -- "Work Cited" -- "Filmography" -- "Chapter 3: Journey to the Ruins of Modernity: Euforia and 40 días" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 4: The Power of Running on Empty: On the Road in Post-Soviet Cuba" -- "A Communion of Fuel-Sharing: Guantanamera" -- "Priming the Pump of the Rest-Stop: Lista de espera" -- "The Pot-Holes of Driving Backwards: Miel para Oshún" -- "The End of the Road (Movie)? Viva Cuba" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited" -- "Part II: The Latin American Road Movie: Readings and Genealogies" -- "Chapter 5: Recorriendo las Américas: Cars, Roads, and Latin American Cinema" -- "Notes" -- "Work Cited" -- "Filmography" -- "Chapter 6: Lonely Souls in Sólo Dios Sabe by Carlos Bolado: Pastoralism and Syncretic Spirituality in Times of Crisis" -- "The Neoliberal Nation-State on the Road" -- "Lonely Souls Hit the Road" -- "Pastoralism and Spiritual Renewal" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Work Cited".