A Latin-American view — reply to Carla Penna’s commentary on my paper

Abstract

Soon after I had finished and submitted my response to Elisabeth Rohr’s (2023) most critical commentary on my two-part paper on the Mexican social unconscious (Hernández-Tubert, 2023a, b), I had access to Carla Penna’s (2023) commentary on the same. This was a completely different matter and breathed a rush of fresh air after Rohr’s misunderstanding of my paper (Hernández-Tubert, 2023c), since Carla had fully understood what I was talking about. This was no wonder, since she comes from Brazil, a country that has many historical similarities with Mexico. However, at the beginning, Carla had some doubts about whether she should write this commentary, because she had never been to Mexico and did not know much about its history or culture, and she feared that she might ignore the differences between the two countries. This she wrote in the following terms: