Cristina Jarque
This book is the fifth volume of the Psychoanalytic
Collection Lapsus de Toledo, a collection that has been the fruit of teamwork
achieved by us as members of the Association of Lapsus de Toledo, which is a
cultural association founded in the city of Toledo, Spain. Its objective is to create a space for study
and research on the psychoanalytic practice.
It is two psychoanalysts that mobilize our desire: Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939) who discovered the unconscious and Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) who
elaborated a new theory based on the Freudian discovery.
On this occasion, I would like to especially thank Elvira
Velasco, Laura Medina Mora, Miguel Vilchis, Gorana Manenti, Lola Burgos
Astrid Zeceña and Belén Rico who is always with us, for the invaluable support they have provided. It has been a privilege for us to make our
dream come true and of being able to present our book in London.
Four Women: Four Passions, is made up of twenty five
articles. The co-authors live and work in different countries. At the beginning of the book we have the
collaboration of seven colleagues that have written a commentary on the reading
each of them has made on the book.
I would like to profoundly thank, on the one hand, all the
women that as co-authors, maintain an intense and deep bond connecting us
all. It is such a beautiful bond that
there are no words to measure or to express it.
On the other hand, I would like to thank the gentlemen who
participated in these writings, a friendly and professional bond unites me to
them too. I would like to express my
desire that through this book, which has been one more uniting point between
us, this friendship and professional bond, is stronger and stronger. It is my desire that it unites us even more,
regardless of distances, differences or any obstacles that may come in our
way.
In this book called Four Women: Four Passions, we will find
profound reflections around love, obsession, madness and enjoyment of these
four women whose lives have been of great interest to many. Studies as well as research, analyses and
observations have been made by connoisseurs on these women for the reason that
they all represent paradigms of femininity.
The latter as being something enigmatic and incomprehensible.
Frida Kahlo, Camille Claudel, Juana de Castilla and Teresa
de Ávila, are the four women functioning as our cause for writing this
book. These women have been enigmatic,
extraordinary, joyful, obsessed, at times even mad; but most importantly they have
been passionate.
These women have tried to make themselves heard in a
thousand different ways: sometimes softly, at times even in silence and on many
other occasions through strong, intense and even furious screams.
Frida by means of her painting, Camille through her
sculpture, Juana through her jealousy and Teresa in her writings; they all
seduce us and incite us to create bridges between their stories and their
passions. Passions like the ones these
women possess, our women, each and every one of the co-authors who have come
together with the purpose of finding our own voice to say something about what
the life of these women has caused us.
I would like to say that I feel very honoured to be the
coordinator of this collection of books, we are working with lots of strength
and the reward to our efforts is the vertiginous frequency and continuous
publication of these volumes. At the
present moment we are working on a book that speaks of perversions. We will be privileged to count on articles
from several colleagues who are members of the European Fundation for
Psychoanalysis. All of these
publications fill us with happiness and that is why we want to share with all
of you the enthusiasm of our writing.
What interests me in particular, is to transmit, at this
presentation of our book, that it is precisely a book that is interesting for
all ages, as it speaks of human passions.
And I must say everyone wants to know about human passions as it is a
topic that concerns us all.
Our work in Toledo is ongoing, we are filled with projects,
with enthusiasm and with an intense desire to continue creating and producing
events that increment the expansion and transmission of the culture that is
linked to our psychoanalytic labor.
This book is a vivid example of those links that we are
building, because as psychoanalysts, our desire is to create links with other
disciplines. It is for this reason that
each one of the co-authors in this book, writes from that place that is unique
to each one of them in their particularity.
This is why Four Women: Four Passions, is an extremely interesting and
original book.
This book's protagonists have inspired the pen of nineteen
co-authors who take part in this writing.
Each one of these female characters will allow us to study and observe a
specific passion: Frida Kahlo who sustains her suffering through her painting
and through her love for Diego Rivera, Camille Claudel who unchains her madness
caused by her desperate obsessional love felt for Auguste Rodin and that we see
cannot manage to remain stable even through her sculpture, Juana de Castilla
who experiences hell because of her jealousy of the infidelities of Felipe, the
love of her life, and finally, Teresa de Ávila who allows us to study mystic
passion.
It is as a result, fascinating to be informed of the
biography of these women who have been interesting and enigmatic icons of
femininity. Our interest is for us as
women, to be able to transmit what we have found to perceive in femininity as
enigmatic and in human passions.
It is widely known, as well, that there is an intimate and
indissoluble link that exists between creating, in art, and the passion of the
creator as an artist. What there exists
is really something that goes beyond...
It is towards that 'beyond' that we are directing ourselves to. It is for this reason that we want to
transmit what is at play, which is something strong sometimes based in
existential suffering that characterises us all as human beings. That is what we call the pain of existence. Thanks you very much.
Traducido al inglés por Astrid Zeceña
Relectura y corrección por Jessica Nahmias
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