WAP Jour fixe – C. Aranguren Rodríguez - The Woman, The War and The Rose

Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2022, 20:15 Uhr
The Woman, The War and The Rose
Constanza Aranguren Rodríguez (Bogotá)
(Vortrag auf Englisch)

The hundreds of interviews that some artists like Svetlana Alexievich, Doris Salcedo and Jesus Abad Colorado conducted
with people who were impacted by the war bear a resemblance to the psychoanalytic task. Those similarities
became a source of inspiration to set up a conversation on art and psychoanalysis to recreate the irreparable damage
caused by violence in victims of war, in subsequent generations, and in the minds of a specific social group. I will
elaborate some ideas on the correlate between the bodies of women and the mind of the mother in order to bring into
consideration the repercussions of these crimes for the integration of the curiosity drive into the development of
thought. Finally, Winnicott’s definition of The Woman, as “[the] unacknowledged mother of the first stages of life of every man and
every woman” will be used as a tool to think about the damage in a primitive object whose main function is one of an
aesthetic nature which enables us to recognize our own fragility and vulnerability as human beings.

Constanza Aranguren Rodríguez, Psychologist, Master Degree in Psychoanalysis – France (Université Paris VII),
Former Chair of the Scientific of the Colombian Psychoanalytic Society, Lecturer in Psychoanalysis (Universidad de
los Andes Colombia), Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Panelist in The Political Mind Seminar
(Institute of Psychoanalysis UK – México)

Moderation: Thomas Jung