about

I work at the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary theory. My research focuses on epistemology of psychoanalysis—especially the concept of transference—philosophy of translation and the transnational circulation of ideas. Debates on universality, theories of interpretation, postcolonial theory, and the history of ideas are central to my research interests. I am currently working on my first book, which explores the role of translation in the epistemology of psychoanalysis and is rooted in a series of case studies of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists from different parts of the world. My latest article is "Hysterical Authority", published in Problemi International, which you can find here.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin and the Hans Kilian und Lotte Köhler Centrum (KKC) at Ruhr University Bochum. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. After completing my PhD, I served as Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

You can contact me at candela.potente [at] rub.de or cpotente [at] alumni.princeton.edu.