Juan Bautista Ritvo

Juan Bautista Ritvo

Santa Fe, 1940. Psychoanalyst and writer. He was a tenured professor of Reading Theory in the Philosophy course at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts and of Historical Epistemological Development of Psychology II at the Faculty of Psychology (UNR). Currently, he teaches in the Master of Psychoanalysis and the Doctorate of the Faculty of Psychology. He was a member of the editorial board of the magazines Sitio, Paradoxa and Diatribas, and currently of the magazines Conjectural, Redes de la letra and Las ranas. He is the author of Logical time and the assertion of anticipated certainty (Letra Viva, 1990), The age of reading (Beatriz Viterbo, 1992), Repetition: chance and nomination (La perra, 1994), The cause of the subject: act and alienation (Homo Sapiens, 1994), Essay of reasons: act and argumentation in psychoanalysis (in collaboration with Carlos Kuri, Letra Viva, 1998), Forms of sensitivity, remains of culture (Ross Foundation, 1999), Del Padre. Politics of his genealogy (Letra Viva, 2005), Decadence and Melancholy (Alción, 2006), Figures of our neighbor. The enemy, the other body, the guest (Letra Viva, 2006), Figures of femininity (Letra Viva, 2009), The labyrinth of femininity and the analytical act (Homo Sapiens, 2009), Subject mass community. The conjectural reason and the economy of the rest (Mar por medio, 2011), Criticism and fascination (Alción, 2014), The conjectural rhetoric or the birth of the subject (Nube Negra, 2014), The feminine silence. Towards (from) philosophy (Nube Negra, 2015), The age of reading and other essays (Nube Negra, 2017), A reading beyond the pleasure principle (Otro Cauce, 2017), Venezia (Nube Negra, 2018) , Enigmas and transformations of the ghost: ghost and diagnosis (Dock Editions, 2020) and Orpheus or the birth of night (17grises, 2021). In addition, he published a large number of essays on literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in national and international specialized magazines.