From a psychohistoric approach (E. Erikson), complemented with other theoretical constributions, the psychosocial condition is seen epistemologically as defining any process of identity configuration. the interpretation of identities, being these individual or social, demands a spatial temporal contextualization and a full understanding of its specific geohistoric and cultural matrices. In teh case of Latin America, it works -concretely and formally- as a social identifying reference and as an imaginative collective valid and valuable to its inhabitants. They have been legitimated, not only due to cultural practices and symbolic representaitons, but also by obvious self-perceptions and public hetero-perceptions of a psychosocial mature. The diachronic vision of this peculiar social group -Latin America- outlines as a basic and necessary ingredient of its projective identification construction, a refoundation, an ethical dimension, based upon its geoecological spaces, in Human rights and in Democratic values.
Keywords:
Psychosocial identity, Latin America, globalization
Rubilar S., L. (2000). Latin-American identity: epistemological basis and ethical perpective. Revista De Psicología, 9(1), Pág. 161–170. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2000.18554
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