Palabras de mujer
(1990)
Freud y Buda coquetean
(2009)
Algunas escuelas psicoanalíticas fincan su legitimidad en su estricta adhesión a la teoría freudiana como concebida por el fundador del psicoanálisis. Otras lo hacen declarándose discípulas de alguno de sus seguidores. Desde la perspectiva de estas escuelas, la esencia ética de la práctica psicoanalítica estaría constituida por el conocimiento profundo de los escritos de Freud, o del seguidor elegido, y por el fiel seguimiento a los principios que sustentados por ellos. La atención: esencia ética del psicoanálisis rebate esta premisa bajo la hipótesis de que, dadas las contradicciones que caracterizan a la teoría psicoanalítica y sus diversas interpretaciones, ningún texto psicoanalítico puede constituir la esencia ética de la práctica analítica. Qué constituye y cómo puede definirse dicha esencia, es la pregunta que este escrito pretende responder.
The Many Prisons of Women Predestined to Commit a Crime. Sadomasochism as a Female Survival Strategy
(2019)
This is an approach to Mexican female delinquency from a Frommian sadomasochism and a non-punitive criminal justice perspective, based on autobiographical life stories written by women confined in Mexican prisons. Those women have always lived in a society which assaults them in a thousand ways and treats them with inequity; whatever their crime, they are not judged with a gender perspective. Almost all are poor, many of them are mothers forced to abandon their children to serve their sentence behind bars in despicable conditions, accused of crimes that many times they commit induced by their partners' behavior against them.
The efforts of the Mexican authorities to defeat insecurity, violence, and crime have not been successful. It seems that the prison system plays a major role in this. Delinquent violence forces us to look for different options and conditions. Proposals that emanated from the humanist psychoanalysis promoted by Erich Fromm, who lived in Mexico for over 20 years from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, are therapeutic resources and paths of analysis. These allow us to identify both the productive and the creative aspects of the individual personality propelling the person to their social integration. The aim is to guide individuals toward a biophilic character and to the construction of a fair society provided with hope and liberty. The mission of the Instituto Mexicano de Psicoanálisis (IMPAC; Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis), founded in Mexico City in 1963 by Erich Fromm, is to: spread Fromm’s intellectual legacy through psychoanalytic training; pay specialized attention to persons in need of psychotherapies and analytic psychotherapies; disseminate Fromm’s thoughts by publishing them; undertake professional research; plus, recently, collaborate with federal agencies for justice procurement and human rights defense. This has made it possible to convince us of the appropriateness, validity, and efficacy of humanist psychoanalysis to approach and become involved in benefiting Mexican society.