I work as a psychoanalyst in the different ways in which I conceive that practice: analyzing or supervising -through the experience of a personal encounter and also in the new modalities of experience associated with the virtual-, or transmitting psychoanalysis through seminars or workshops, or writing or editing.

In the long training for the function I perform, travel has also been and is a crucial element: if analysis itself is a kind of journey, the training of an analyst is too. And it is in the journey -and the encounter with difference, with strangeness, with the radically different outside or inside one- that psychoanalytic listening is tempered. And in this way that place of foreignness, which is indispensable for a psychoanalyst, is preserved.

This way of conceiving my profession forces me to travel between languages and geographies, diverse theories and interlocutions, to move away from any intellectual comfort. That is the way I try to exercise a practice like psychoanalysis, which keeps rigor without being totally scientific, which implies artisan care for detail without being a capricious empiricism; which entails the responsibility of thinking each case as unique and forces the practitioner to an implacable ethics.

I studied psychology first in a city with a university tradition, in a university with four centuries of existence, and then psychoanalysis, in the same city, according to the criteria of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the institution founded by Freud more than a century ago. Trained as a psychoanalyst between Córdoba and Buenos Aires, I also did a residency and then a master’s degree between Córdoba and Milan.

I am then a member of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation and the International Psychoanalytic Association, as well as of the international research group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Today I direct the Institute of Psychoanalytical Training of the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Córdoba, an institution to which I belong and of which I am an analyst with a training and supervising function.

My work has received some distinctions: the University Award (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1991); the M. Bergwerk Award (Congreso Argentino de Psicoanálisis, 2008); the Lucien Freud Award (Fundación Proyecto al Sur, 2008); the Elise Hayman Award for the study of the Holocaust and Genocide (International Psychoanalytical Association, 2011); the Angel Garma Award (Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría, 2013). But beyond titles, antecedents and perhaps necessary distinctions in a field that often presents some confusion, the practice of psychoanalysis -unlike many medical or psychological therapies- is exercised and demonstrated each time, as if it were the first time.