The present article extends the historical precedents of one of the first references on the psychoanalysis in Latin America: the dissertation of the Chilean doctor Germán Greve Schlegel in Buenos Aires in 1910. It is verified, based on historical primary sources, how Greve would have taken contact with the Freudism from ends of the 19th century, describing the specific frame of this meeting and details are analyzed on the participation of this doctor in the medical Chilean scene. This work defines to the psychoanalysis as a system of ideas and beliefs of transnational character, which reception in any local space involves an active process of reading, reintepretation and adjustment to the different realities those who are inserted.