José Torres Orozco, degeneration and psychoanalysis at the beginning of the 20th century: from pathology to psychological conflict

Carlos Arturo Noyola Juárez

2019, Number 1

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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2019; 22 (1)

José Torres Orozco, degeneration and psychoanalysis at the beginning of the 20th century: from pathology to psychological conflict

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the theory about degeneration continued to serve a medical community as an explanatory model of the social problems that went through Mexico in its quest to consolidate a modernization project. At the same time new theoretical models arose that in the paper had the potential to put in tension the ideas that circulated in that community. What we propose is to analyse how the Freudian doctrines were able to put into tension a theoretical building supported by the hereditary and degeneration notions. To this end, we will take the figure of José Torres Orozco to interrogate the complex articulation between the old clinical models and the reception of psychoanalysis in the early years of the twentieth century. Throughout his writings, Torres Orozco maintains a vision that coincides in its essential parts with the stigmatizing categories of psychiatry and criminology of the late nineteenth century, driven by the positivist current. By changing the conditions of enunciation of his speech, the Freudian doctrine will be fundamental to fissure the degeneration theory that it had maintained for years, changing the notion of mental pathology by the psychic conflict.

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