In this episode, learn about Argentina’s singular relationship with psychoanalysis (did you know Argentina has the highest number of psychoanalysts in the world, by a long margin?), how it exported that to Spain, and how cultural tensions were running at an all-time high in the early 1980s as these countries were emerging from dictatorships. We chat to Rodrigo López Martínez, of the University of Aberdeen and the author of 2022’s best article in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, about transatlantic essayism and why it helps to listen to loud, cheesy pop music when writing.