Juan-David Nasio



Juan-David Nasio (born 1942 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founders of Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris.

Biography
After qualifying as a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, Nasio completed his residency as a psychiatrist at the hospital in Lanús. In 1969, he emigrated to France where he attended the classes of Jacques Lacan. In May 1979, he did a course about the theme "subject of the unconscious" in the seminar of Lacan.

He was a professor at the University of Paris VII Sorbonne for 30 years from 1971 and for three years had a seminar in the école Freudienne de Paris (1977-1980). After its dissolution in 1980, he founded the Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris (1986). He received the French Legion of Honour.

In addition to participating in Lacan's seminars and translating his Écrits into Spanish, he has authored numerous books in French which have been translated in 13 languages.

Distinctions

 * 1999 : Knight of Legion of Honor.
 * 2001 : Illustrious citizen of the city of Rosario.
 * 2004 : Officer of ordre national du Mérite.
 * 2012 : Doctor honoris causa of the University of Buenos Aires and of the University of Tucuman.
 * 2015 : Doctor honoris causa of the Autonomous University of Mexico State.
 * 2016 : Doctor honoris causa of the University of Rosario and of the University 21 Century of Córdoba.
 * 2017 : Doctor honoris causa of the Southern Connecticut State University.

English translations

 * Book of Love and Pain: The Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan. Translated by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003)
 * Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan. Translated by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998)
 * Hysteria: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis. Translated by Susan Fairfield (New York: Other Press, 1998)
 * Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis. Translated by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010) - Awarded with the Choice Price (2011)
 * A Psychoanalyst on the Couch. Translated by Stephanie Grace Schull, revised and edited by David Pattigrew and François Raffoul (Albany: SUNY Press, 2012)
 * Why Do We Always Repeat the Same Mistakes ? Currently this book is being translated into English by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul. (Albany: SUNY Press)