GALLO, RUBEN. Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2010. x + 389 pp.Ruben Gallo's study of Mexico's and of Mexico begins, as the author recounts, at a Mexican museum's exhibition of collection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese antiquities. Symptomatically absent, for Gallo, are Mexican and Latin American artifacts. This omission (or repression) serves as point of departure for the book. Mexico is divided into two parts, each containing four chapters and four free associations. The first part reads a series of Freud-inflected interventions in Mexican art, politics, letters, history, and theology. The second part, much more speculative in nature, gives the book its title. Here, the reader travels through own archive - his correspondence, his books, his antiquities, his dreams, his house and city - in search of its Mexican residues. Coleccionista, the book's endeavor, like its subject, because throughout the work we follow Gallo in the accumulation of what the author calls scant traces, their reunion, their always towards an elusive Freudian in the name of an impossible Mexican Freud. Each chapter grasps, speculatively, at some close encounter, a possibility, an opening and of the archive. Unlike Gallo's Mexican Modernity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), a book on the material constitution of Mexico's incipient modernity in the first half of the twentieth century, this new study largely invokes the Mexico of - the Mexico of someone who neither lived in nor traveled Mexico. And this procedure is, in a sense, mutual; the book's encounter with goes beyond the expected scholarly engagement with his thought, productively tarrying with the of a certain unorthodox reception in Mexico.The book's first part, in Mexico, already announces an irony that will only completely unveil itself in the text's last free association, on missed chance at a Mexican exile following the Anschluss: was never in Mexico. Indeed, the Freud who made it Mexico remains only the name of the author on the texts of the early psychoanalytic movement. Gallo here relates a cultural history of certain key moments of reception in Mexico and the wild analysis that was so often its outcome; one finds the more anticipated readers of treated alongside such unlikely figures as Gregorio Lemercier. The first chapter begins with the lone exception the cool reception of among earlytwentieth-century writers and artists, the poet Salvador Novo, and studies Novo's personal archive, reading carefully his marginalia in order reconstruct this first reading of in Mexico. The second chapter centers on the philosopher Samuel Ramos and his deployment of to diagnose the collective neuroses afflicting the Mexican nation (57) and reads as symptomatic Ramos's privileging of dissident disciple Alfred Adler over the master himself. The book's third chapter reads Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) as a kind of return Freud, as a kind of Mexican translation of Moses and Monotheism. Part I of the book ends with a chapter on Gregorio Lemercier, whose monastery in psychoanalysis - a community that should be understood as part of the radical social and political experiments of the sixties and seventies - opens a space not merely rethink Mexicanness, but transform it by radically reforming Mexican Catholicism.Part II, Freud's Mexico, covers an even broader territory. …