Freud exhibition delves into a dramatic legacy in Latin America

Early and enduring adoption of Freudian psychoanalysis puts paid to view of it being a European practice

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 Gastao Pereira da Silva.