Articles – Calibán

31 December, 202531 December, 2025

First Prize for Culture from the IPA in the Community and the World

Caliban, a psychoanalysis attentive to culture, has been selected as the Winner of the First Prize in the Culture category of the IPA Awards in the Community and the World. These awards recognize the valuable work of psychoanalytic projects in local communities and around the world. They highlight outstanding initiatives that support one of the…

12 December, 2025

Sigourney Award-2025

Extraordinary Team Work by Calibán Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis Earns International Recognition With The Sigourney Award-2025 San Francisco, CA – Nov. 11, 2025 – International recognition and a substantial cash prize are annually bestowed by The Sigourney Award Trust to honor outstanding psychoanalytic work completed during the past 10 years. After a prestigious panel…

11 November, 202521 January, 2026

Caliban New Voices Award

Caliban has been honored with the First IPA Culture in the Community and the World Award 2025. In recognition of this support, we have decided to allocate the awarded funds to the creation of the Caliban New Voices Award, as a way to give back and encourage writing among new generations, reaffirming our commitment to…

23 March, 202026 March, 2020

Arguments: The passion of discovery: A Passage to India. A visit to a (not so) far off world.

Adriana Ponzoni1 How can I provide an account as close as possible of the experience lived in India and, as if this were not enough, add the touching reality shared there with Indian analysts, working and exchanging ideas about our different realities, which perhaps are closer than one could imagine? I was worried about and…

4 January, 202017 January, 2020

Anthropophagy and Authoritarianism in Brazilian Psychoanalysis

Belinda Mandelbaum, Universidade de São Paulo, psychoanalyst and associate professor at the Social Psychology Department at IPUSP1. Stephen Frosh, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. Professor of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck2. Aline Rubin, Universidade de São Paulo, psychologist and Social Psychology PhD Student at the University of São Paulo, with scholarship of Fundação…

1 January, 202025 March, 2020

Marie Bonaparte versus Joan Rivière : one single libido? Masquerade as passion of the signifier

Indeed, if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, it would even be possible to maintain that libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature, whether it occurs in men or in women and irrespectively of whether its object is a man or a woman.Sigmund…

2 September, 201926 March, 2020

It is the time now for voices among voices supported*

When words shiver and falter in the face of the blank page and in front of the obscure entanglement of thoughts, poets come to our rescue.
Without realizing it, I have followed Freud’s encouragement to resort to them.

2 September, 201926 March, 2020

“Psychoanalysis will then be seen as a modern meditative practice, a two-person ‘rational’ meditation”

How does one gets knowledge? The western idea is very much critical thinking… here the idea is to completely surrender to the guru, that you will absorb more from the guru surrending than with critical thought. But after you absorbed… you must kill him after, but not from the beginning, with the critical thought.

2 September, 201926 March, 2020

‘It’s a strange world, isn’t it?’ A voyeuristic lens on David Lynch’s Blue Velvet

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is a coming-of-age story developed through a mixture of criminal and psychological investigations, transgressive sexuality, romantic love and psychopathic violence – all presented in its auteur’s unique filmic language. This is a language which appeals to our conscious curiosity to understand the movie’s narrative plot and its characters’ behaviour, but also invites us to relate them to our own deep-seated unconscious fears and desires.