Candela Potente, PhD
Candela Potente, PhD
You can also find me at Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
My research focuses on translation and transnationality, bringing together philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. Some of my current interests are debates on universality, philosophy of translation, and postcolonial theory. I am working on my first book, which explores the role of translation in psychoanalytic interpretation based on a series of case studies of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists from different parts of the world.
Universality
(submitted for review)
Marie Langer and the Other Places of Psychoanalysis
Penumbr(a) – A Journal of Psychoanalysis & Modernity, 2025
Hysterical Authority
Problemi International, 2023
Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta
TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World, 2021
El revés del museo [The Museum Inside Out]
Paula Fleisner, Guadalupe Lucero (eds.), El situacionismo y sus derivas actuales. Acerca de las relaciones entre arte y política en la estética contemporánea [Situationism and Its Contemporary Drifts. About the Relationships between Art and Politics in Contemporary Aesthetics], Prometeo, 2015
El desinterés como problema ético, estético y ontológico [Disinterestedness as an Ethical, Aesthetic and Ontological Problem]
Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 2013
"Psychoanalysis in Other Places: An Epistemological Perspective"
Invited talk at the online lecture series "Cultural psychology and social theory," jointly organized by the Kilian Köhler Centre (KKC) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the BML Munjal University (BMU) in Gurugram, India. November 2024
podcast appearances
Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis, and Global Civil War (with Ramsey McGlazer), Red Medicine, hosted by Sam Kelly. October 2025
conference activity (selected)
"Do Dreams Function as Primary Texts?" Symposium zu Übersetzung und Psychoanalyse. Berlin, Germany (and online). March 2026.
“The Insignificance of Origins: On Translation in Psychoanalysis,” International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy 2025 Conference: Nature and Its Discontents. Colchester, UK. June 2025
“Francesc Tosquelles and the Construction of Collectivity,” ACLA Annual Meeting 2025 (Seminar: Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities). Online. May 2025
“On the Translatability of Psychoanalysis: Marie Langer,” A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis, UC Berkeley, USA. March 2025
Discussant at Psychoanalysis & Radical Psychiatry Conference, organized by the FREEPSY project and the Psychosis Therapy Project. London, UK. November 2024
“Dispersed Transference: Francesc Tosquelles and the Saint-Alban Hospital,” Midlands Conference in Critical Thought. Nottingham, UK. April 2024
“Psychoanalytic Translation as Mediation,” Research Workshop Contemporary Theory in the End Times. Tampere University, Finland. March 2024