Lacan visited Mexico in 1966, after passing through the United States. When he returned to Paris, he spoke about that trip in his seminar and when commenting on Diego Rivera's mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central” he placed three forms of the past that relate America and Europe, while separating them. Which opens the possibility that effects of coloniality appear in each analysis that raise new questions for psychoanalytic practice. That is why this book starts from Mexico, but it does so to address problems that interest Lacan's readers on both continents (especially if they are also interested in Bataille, whom his friends called "the Aztec").

One of the ways in which the study of Lacan began in America was the article “Freud and Lacan” by Louis Althusser who, after murdering his wife, wrote two autobiographies in which his transference with Lacan can be clearly read. …with whom it was never analyzed. One of Althusser's most brilliant students, Jacques-Alain Miller, also experienced what he himself called a "death" transference towards Lacan, who would later become his father-in-law, and did not analyze himself with him either. What position did Lacan have regarding these transfers?

This question allows us to follow the plot that he put in relation to Althusser, Lacan and Miller and with these elements to question how it happened that Lacanian psychoanalysis began to be taught at the University, particularly at the University of Vincennes, today known as Paris 8, and then in all types of university institutions, public and private in Latin America. This phenomenon is incomprehensible without studying Jacques-Alain Miller's position in the psychoanalytic movement and thereby understanding why this book has a common thread, which is shame.

Co-edition with Anchomundo.