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Jorge Alemán Lavigne (born in Buenos Aires on March 30, 1951) is an Argentine psychoanalyst and writer. At the age of 25, in 1976, he went into exile in Spain and has been living in Madrid since then.He has published numerous books that reflect a consistent intellectual theme combining psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics, as well as books of poetry.

Biography
From 2004 to 2015, Jorge Alemán Lavigne served as the Cultural Counsellor at the Argentine Embassy in Spain. He was appointed by the Spanish government as a Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica at the rank of Commendation; the Order aims to reward extraordinary civil conduct carried out by Spanish and foreign individuals that benefit the nation or significantly contribute to fostering the friendly relations and cooperation of the Spanish Nation with the rest of the International Community.

He is an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of San Martín, and in 2018, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Rosario. Between 1972 and 1976, he published several poetry books in that city, one of which, Sobre hospicios y expertos navegantes, won the National Poetry Prize from the Arts Fund. During the second half of the 1970s, he was part of the vanguard of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Spain. He founded psychoanalytic groups and the first Lacanian magazine in Madrid, Serie Psicoanalítica (1981). A contributor to the consolidation of the Freudian Field in Spain, he is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the Freudian Field in Spain (ELP) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP), as well as a teacher at the New Center for Psychoanalytic Studies.

Jorge Alemán is director of a widely distributed magazine called “Lacanemancipa” ( https://lacaneman.hypothese.org/ ) and as well Director of the Youtube channel “Punto de emancipación”.

Work and thought
Jorge Alemán's numerous essays showcase his thoughts, although he began his writing career as a poet. As a speaker, he generously shares his knowledge through conferences, roundtables, and classes, sharing the stage with intellectuals like Gianni Vattimo, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Slavoj Zizek and Eugenio Trías among others. He references the latter in his writings, particularly discussing his theory of being as a limit and the subject as a border.

Poetry
Between 1972 and 1976, he published poetry books in Buenos Aires, including Invasions and legends, Sobre hospicios y expertos navegantes and Iguanas y Patética. The second book won the National Prize of Poetry of the Fondo de las Artes. In 2008, he returned to poetry publishing with the book titled No Saber.

Essay
Within the psychoanalytic field, Jorge Alemán has drawn attention to a range of authors and problems previously unexplored. Recognizing that everyone is engaged in philosophy, whether consciously or not, J. Alemán has always embraced an antiphilosophical stance. His antiphilosophical approach, grounded in psychoanalysis, aims to challenge and expand the limits of traditional philosophy. This approach is evident in his various writings and especially in the book ‘Lacan: Heidegger’ (1998). His 1989 work ‘Un decir menos tonto’ (A Less Foolish Utterance) was a practical demonstration of this approach. Both the title Lacan: Heidegger which separates and connects the psychoanalyst and the philosopher, and the pursuit of meaning in Lacan’s question about whether psychoanalysis can offer a less foolish utterance than those of science, philosophy, and religion, embody his antiphilosophical formula.

In 1992, when publishing the book Cuestiones antifilosóficas en Jacques Lacan tackled the resonances and divergent solutions that psychoanalysis proposed for some pressing philosophical themes.

In Lacan en la razón posmoderna (2000), Alemán fully embraces antiphilosophy, tracing its origins to Freud's discoveries. The subjective experience that begins with the practice of the unconscious stands in opposition to the ideals of modernity. Although Freud initially aligned with the modern program, he ultimately recognized the relentless work of the drives, shattering any illusion of progress towards higher goals. Freud, in Jorge Alemán's view, emerges as a prominent critic of modernity. The concept of meaning – central to the philosophy of the Enlightenment – is diminished by its conjunction/disjunction with the drive. In his elucidation of antiphilosophy, specifically coined in Lacan's work, Alemán confronts it with deconstruction. By positioning the drive as the non-deconstructible limit of psychoanalysis, he differentiates it from what he describes as the "religious turn" of contemporary discourses related to post-Heideggerian deconstruction.

In Inconsciente: existencia y diferencia sexual following the book Lacan: Heidegger, he argues that only speaking, sexed, and mortal existence can access the human. These three conditions knot forming the inescapable prerequisite for any "potential being" in human desire. The conditions of this experience can not be neither grasped nor entirely governed by a reflexive consciousness or by the fundamental identity of a thinking self. The work addresses the fundamental question of the structure imposed on existence by language, highlighting the fracture, the foundational void, and the essential wound that language inflicts on speaking, sexed, and mortal existence.

In his book Notas antifilosóficas, Alemán outlines the key points of what can be called the ‘current malaise in civilization,’ where historical devices transform into the Society of Control, the Society of the Spectacle, and Capitalist Discourse. He also addresses a crucial contemporary issue, relevant both in general and in clinical practice: the constant presence of fear in everyday life, and its dominance in urban public life. Alemán suggests that ‘fear not only protects us but also provides the opportunity to know ‘what to do’ in dealing with an existence that is inherently unjustifiable and without excuses’.

Prizes and distinctions



 * Condecorado By the Spanish Government with the title of commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.
 * Professor honorario of the University of Buenos Aires
 * Professor honorario of the Universidad Nacional de General San Martín
 * National prize of Poetry of del Fondo de las Artes, 1974.

Works

 * 1972 - Invasiones y leyendas. Buenos Aires, El ojo subcutáneo ediciones.
 * 1973 - Sobre hospicios y expertos navegantes.
 * 1974 - Iguanas. Madrid, Ediciones Grupo Cero.
 * 1981 - Patética.
 * 1992 - Cuestiones antifilosóficas en Jacques Lacan. Buenos Aires, Atuel.
 * 1997 - La experiencia del fin. Psicoanálisis y metafísica. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 1998 - Lacan: Heidegger. El psicoanálisis en la tarea del pensar. J. Alemán y S. Larriera. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 2000 - Lacan en la razón posmoderna. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 2001 - El inconsciente. Existencia y diferencia sexual. Madrid, Editorial Síntesis.
 * 2003 - Derivas del discurso capitalista. Notas sobre psicoanálisis y política. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 2003 - Notas antifilosóficas, Buenos Aires, Gramma ed.
 * 2004 - Filosofía del límite e inconsciente. Conversación con Eugenio Trías. J. Alemán y S. Larriera. Madrid, Editorial Síntesis
 * 2006 - Existencia y sujeto. J. Alemán y S. Larriera. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 2008 - Arte, ideología y capitalismo, de S. Zizek, J. Alemán y  C. Rendueles, Ed Pensamiento, Círculo de Bellas Artes.
 * 2008 - No saber. Madrid, Demipage.
 * 2009 - Desde Lacan: Heidegger. J. Alemán y S. Larriera. Madrid, Ediciones Miguel Gómez.
 * 2009 - Para una izquierda lacaniana.... Buenos Aires, Grama ed.
 * 2010 - Lacan, la política en cuestión. Buenos Aires, Grama ed.
 * 2012 - Soledad: Común. Políticas en Lacan. Madrid, Clave intelectual.
 * 2013 - Conjeturas sobre una izquierda lacaniana. Buenos Aires, Grama ed.
 * 2012 - Jacques Lacan y el debate posmoderno. Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Seminario.
 * 2014 - En la frontera. Sujeto y capitalismo. Barcelona, Gedisa editorial.
 * 2016 - Horizontes neoliberales en la subjetividad. Buenos Aires, Grama ed.
 * 2017 - Del desencanto al populismo. Encrucijadas de una época. J. Alemán y G. Cano. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2017 - Río incurable. Málaga, La Dragona - Miguel Gómez Ediciones.
 * 2017 - Solitudine: Comune. Per una sinistra lacaniana, Milano, Mimesis Edizioni.
 * 2018 - Lacan y el capitalismo. Introducción a la Soledad Común. Granada, Editorial Universidad de Granada.
 * 2019 - Capitalismo: Crimen perfecto o emancipación. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2020 - Pandemónium. Notas sobre el desastre. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2020 - Razón fronteriza y sujeto del inconsciente. Conversaciones con Eugenio Trías. J. Alemán y S. Larriera. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2021 - Ideología: Nosotras en la época, La época en nosotros. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2021 - Pandemonium. Appunti sul disastro, Roma, Castelvecchi editore.
 * 2021 - Capitalismo. Crimine perfetto o emancipazione. Roma, Castelvecchi editore.
 * 2023 - La hora del rechazo, Málaga, La Dragona - Miguel Gómez Ediciones.
 * 2023 - Breviario político de psicoanálisis. Barcelona, Ned Ediciones.
 * 2023 - Lacan and Capitalist Discourse, Neoliberalism and Ideology. Abingdon / New York, Routledge.

Bibliography on Jorge Alemán

 * 2018 - Timothy Appleton and José Alberto Raymondi (Comp.) Lacan In the logics of the emancipation. Around texts of Jorge Alemán. Ed. Miguel Gómez Editions/Filigrama, Buenos Aires, 2018, 392 pp. ISBN 978-987-98234-9-1
 * 2017 - Carlos Gómez Camarena "German: of the anti-philosophy to the left lacaniana" in Ian Parker and David Peacock Cuéllar (Comps. And coords.) Marxism, psychology and @psicoanálisis, Ed. Paradiso/University Michoacana of Saint Nicolás of Hidalgo, Mexico, 2017, 592 pp. ISBN 978-607-97871-0-3

links

 * Artículo Entre Borges y lo real
 * Miguel Gómez Ediciones.
 * No saber, de Editorial Demipage archivado en Wayback Machine.
 * Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.
 * Seminario Atlántico de Pensamiento
 * Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
 * «Psicoanálisis, marxismo y emancipación: Operación izquierda lacaniana» (extractado de una intervención en el congreso «Inconsciente y filosofía. Una nueva manera de pensar lo político», realizado en el Colegio de España, en París, mayo de 2010. Artículo en el diario Página/12 del 17 de febrero de 2011.
 * YouTube.com (vídeo: Combates y debates. El retorno de lo político: muerte, resurrección y desafíos de nuestros tiempos).
 * Video, Jorge Alemán: «La política en cuestión».