TY - JOUR A1 - Mendes, Eliana R. P. T1 - Igor Caruso’s Presence in Brazil; paper presented at the XVII. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Mexico City, Oct. 2012, 5 pp. N2 - In his approach to understand psychoanalytical knowledge and practice, Igor A. Caruso, one of the founders of IFPS, started with a traditional Christian anthropological view on human development. His early conception of psychosocial disturbances described the loss of cognitive and social ability as a loss of orientation on objective values of human responsibility and attachment. Referring to Existentialist Philosophy, Caruso later on transformed his view on neurosis into a concept of individual alienation of transcendence. In the 1960s, he conceived psychosocial development as an on-going individual dealing with social and collective alienation of human nature, life and work. The process of becoming a cultural person obliges the ego to face his individual unconscious drive demands as well as the unconscious demands of the society. Caruso’s stays in Latin America – esp. in Brazil – caused him to reinforce the interference of materialistic theories on socialisation with psychoanalytic knowledge of individual unconscious dynamics. He understood the psychoanalytic situation as a ‘micro-social model’ which symbolizes the collective and the individual alienated conditions as well as the possibilities of solving the alienation in an individual and cultural process. In the 1970s, Caruso’s conception was understood as a Freudo-Marxist point of view on alienated psychosocial reality. With his view on psychoanalytical treatment as a dialectic and relational process – intra- and interpersonal – Caruso demanded a psychoanalytical responsibility within the collective changes, which in a historical view on the IFPS can be understood as a part of a common identity within the early federation. Y1 - 2012 ER -