Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker was born in 1966, and is a psychoanalist in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He studied psychology at the University of Sao Paulo, where he now works as a professor of lacanian studies. Member of the Forum of the Lacanian Field, he studied critical approaches of Psychoanalysis in Manchester and participated in different reasearch lines (philosophy, language sciences, social theory, psychosomatic).
This book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders... (more)