Dear Colleagues,
Latin America’s psychoanalytic world is growing steadily. Last January, at the IPSO meeting in NYC, our treasurer Renato Pordeus informed us that Latin America was the fastest growing IPSO region. We are very glad and would like to thank all members and IPSO reps.
Future Events:
The most important event for Latin America will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FEPAL Conference: “Realities and Fictions/Realidades y Ficciones”. 3-6 September 2014, some satellite activities included (1-6 September). Pre-congress Ocal: “Diversity, Integration, and (Development) Envelopment: Psychoanalyzing in Latin America”.
3 September. Place: APdeBA Location: Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association
IPSO activities:
a) Presentation of clinical materials by the president of IPSO Debra Zatz and 2 comments of IPSO candidates from other regions.
b) IJP Writing Workshop for IPSO Candidates: On writing a psychoanalytic paper for “The International Journal of Psychoanalysis” (tBC).
Via the website: “IPSO Building Bridges: Psychoanalytic Contemporary Authors ". 10 October
Mexico, Brazil and other countries interested. Coordinators: Aura Lorenzo (IPSO) and Mónica Lopez Peñafiel (PSIMEF-APM). Speakers: Petruska Passos: “Armando Ferrari”, Jaime Cuitláhuac López (Mexico): “Thomas Ogden”. Language: Spanish; and other candidates.
The 1st IPSO-ILAP Study Day/ Panama. November
Participants: ILAP (Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia and Panama), Mexico, and other countries interested on (tBC). “Contributions of Latin American Psychoanalysis, to the Psychoanalytical Theory and Practice” / “Aportaciones del Psicoanálisis Latinoamericano, a la Teoría y Práctica psicoanalíticas”.
Via the website: IPSO Project Building: Study Groups for Latin America’s candidates
Coordinators of the project: Aura Lorenzo and Isabel Silveira. September, October, and November 2014.
The study group for LA will consist of a group of 6 candidates (with computers) who will meet three times – in October, November, and December – to study, comment, discuss, and present papers related to some of the concepts of the author. Each study group will have a coordinator.
BBSG Coordinator Name and Country BBSG Language
Armando Ferrari (Italy) Petruska Passos, Brazil Portuguese
Sándor Ferenczi (Hungary) Ana Maria Hansguergens, Hungary English
Christopher Bollas (U.S.A.) Aura Lorenzo, Mexico Spanish
Christopher Bollas (U.S.A.) Pablo Guerrero, Mexico Spanish
Past Projects and Events
IPSO Project: Psychoanalysis in Latin America through Art and Literature. The 2nd event: “The inner World of Octavio Paz”. Nobel Prize winner in 1990. 8 March, México City. The event coincided with the decision of the Mexican Government to dedicate this year to Octavio Paz through activities along the country. The topic of our event took us to talk about psychoanalysis in a very deep way. Surrealism in Mexico, Bion’s influence and Christopher Bollas’s concepts were used.
Brazilian Association of Candidates ABC new board attendance ceremony 22 March. Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel Silveira, IPSO VP elect for LA: IPSO Latin America attended the ABC (Brazilian Association of Candidates) new board inauguration ceremony, representing IPSO LA.
IPSO Video conference: What is IPSO? 7 April, Paraguay Valentín Torres the IPSO rep, 5 candidates from the Asuncion Psychoanalytic Society (Study Group), and Aura Lorenzo, IPSO VP for Latin America, met to learn about how the IPSO works, its benefits, and opportunities.
IPSO table: "The Candidate’s mental health, facing the desire and pain of the Psychoanalytic Training”. At the 30th International Conference: “Psychoanalysis and Health”, organized by ARPAC, the Psychoanalytic Association of Monterrey. 10-12 April. The table was very interesting and touching. The papers by the candidates who had to go out of their cities to be trained were very welcome.
The Third Encounter of the Mexican Candidates. “The Value of Theoretical Pluralism on the Construction of Psychoanalytic Identity”. ARPAC, Monterrey, Mexico. 17 May. The value of pluralism in contrast to a specific theoretical background was discussed and a workshop on the topic was organized. The workshop on technique from APG (Guadalajara) was really touching.
VI IPSO Videoconference: “The Challenges of Psychoanalytic Writing”. 24 May, Brazil
Thinking and writing a paper for a psychoanalytic conference is a real challenge to all of us. For this video-conference, we have invited special guests, post-grad students in literature (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), a Journalist, and a Psychologist.
Aura Lorenzo
Isabel Silveira
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