WHAT FOR THE EURO-CENTRIC PSYCHOLOGIST SEEMS LIKE A NEED TO BE LOVED

The story told by the Puerto Rican who smiled when encountering the neighbors in Upper Manhattan, and analyzed by a North American intellectual, who said that he wanted to be loved, led the South American psycho-social anthropologist Rita Segato, to place the case within the larger framework of how much psychological theory was driven by cultural related constructs based on European societies or its derivatives in the USA and Canada. What seems like a need to be loved by a North American or European theorist might be a misunderstanding between cultural points of view and not a neurosis as formulated by the euro-centric theoreticians.