Abstract
The article presents the correspondence that psychiatrist Julio Porto-Carrero sent to psychiatrist Arthur Ramos in 1932 to inform him about the activities of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society and about a concern over systematizing the translation of certain psychoanalytic concepts into Portuguese. This correspondence is used in conjunction with the analysis of other sources to suggest that psychiatrists and psychoanalysts in Rio de Janeiro were then endeavoring to make a place for psychoanalysis in the day’s medical and scientific circles and encourage ever more specialists in Brazil to take an interest in Freud’s theory.
history of psychoanalysis; history of psychiatry; Rio de Janeiro; Julio Porto-Carrero (1887-1937); Arthur Ramos (1903-1949)
