Reconfiguring Epistemological Pacts: Creating a Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Chicano/a Subjectivity, a Cosmopolitan Perspective1

Abstract

A schism has persisted between Chicano psychology (a subdiscipline of multicultural psychology) 2 and psychoanalysis in the U.S. for over three decades. The contentious divide centers around polemics that concern psychoanalysis and Chicano psychology alike. The schism's origins are linked to the epistemological pact forged between post-Freudian psychoanalysis and the psychiatric establishment, the problematics of patient analyzability, and the medicalization of cultural difference. In the discussion to follow, I will highlight the arguments on both sides of the divide and cite a refigured psychoanalysis that theorizes intrapsychic specificity in tandem with cultural specificity, taking Chicana and Chicano subjectivity as a case study.

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