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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Davies

Freud exhibition delves into a dramatic legacy in Latin America

Sigmund Freud in London in 1938
Sigmund Freud in London in 1938. The exhibition shows Freud’s influence on central and south America, which became a leading region globally for psychoanalysis. Photograph: API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty

The famously Freudian Dr Frasier Crane may have brought psychoanalysis over the airwaves to the masses in the seminal 1990s comedy in which he constantly spars with his Jungian brother, Niles. But half a century before him, a real-life Brazilian Frasier was doing much the same.

Sigmund Freud’s influence in Latin America, a region the founder of psychoanalysis never visited, was so profound it spawned a 1940s hit radio show in Brazil, The World of Dreams, presented by the Freud devotee and psychiatrist Gastão Pereira da Silva.

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