Candela Potente, PhD

talks and conferences

“Psychoanalysis in Latin America”
Guest lecture at master’s course “Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Subject and Culture Theory” taught by Christine Kirchhoff at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, January 14th, 2025

"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 8th, 2024

Conference Activity (Selected)

“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 16th and 17th, 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

“Maneuvering for limits,” International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy 2023 Conference: Limits, Frontiers, Rims, and Borders. Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2023

“Pensamiento culposo” [“Guilt-ridden Thought”], X Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, School of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. Madrid, Spain, June 2023

“Migratory Concepts,” LACKiv. Burlington, VT, USA, April 2023

“Can Southerned Concepts be Universal? Moustapha Safouan and the Oedipus Complex,” ACLA Annual Meeting 2023 (Seminar: Southern Concepts). Chicago, IL, USA, March 2023