Enrique Carpintero received the First Special Mention of the National Award in the Psychological Essay area 2011-2014 for his book "Erotism and its shadow. Love as a power of being".

Since its creation in 1913, the National Awards have been at the center of the State's cultural policies in order to distinguish Argentine literary, dramatic, essay and musical production. The delivery ceremony was held on December 2, 2015.

Foreword

Culminating a project that comes from afar, with the forcefulness of innovative thinking rooted in the best of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Enrique Carpintero now gives us El erotismo y su sombra. Love as a power of being, a text destined to occupy a leading place in the expanded field of our culture.

Already in 1999, announcing the new millennium, Enrique Carpintero surprised us with Registros de lo negativo. The body as a place of the unconscious, the borderline patient and the new psychoanalytic devices, that theoretical-clinical book, the cornerstone that he anticipated what he later deployed in various directions.

If with Registros de lo negativo Enrique Carpintero broke into psychoanalysis to let us know that the body speaks in fantasies, in dreams, in failed acts, in gestures, in the affectivity that is part of the psychic structure, with La alegría than necessary. The passions and power in Spinoza and Freud that appeared in 2003, he proposed a book organized based on editorial notes published in the Topía magazine between 1995 and 2002. In such a way that the agile and flexible character

-contingent, if you will- of the magazine style allowed him then to imagine and capture a book that was as transparent as it was rigorous; as fresh as final. By changing the syntax from magazine to book; by uniting and assembling those fragments of a complex system, which at the beginning were editorial notes -which means that they were psychoanalytic interventions in social conflicts-; Those texts, being the same, were different: they changed their meaning or, better still, they acquired a new meaning as a support for a whole that, like the pieces of a puzzle, fit perfectly to allow us to glimpse the larger figure.

Well then. This is not the case. We are not here before a magazine made into a book. Eroticism and its shadow. Love as a power of being is not built with the accumulation of editorial notes that only waited for a thematic structure to give it the form of a reading. Nor is it an addition, an annex to the books that preceded it: apostilles, if anything, to Registro of the negative and to Alegría of what is necessary. In eroticism and its shadow. Love as the power of being Enrique Carpintero was not satisfied with making a synthesis of his particular way of presenting the social history in the origins of the psychic apparatus, but rather dedicated himself to capturing everything produced previously to fly towards spaces not traveled until now . To put together the volume that you have in your hands, Enrique Carpintero took the notes from Topia magazine, but he also took his own books and many more, to "knead" them again, to process them until a different product appeared that portends and announces a path new to think about the subjective constitution in these times. So eroticism and its shadow. Love as a power of being is, if you like, the apogee of psychoanalytic thought that in full maturity functions as a springboard to rise to the scene where the great questions of today's culture are posed. In such a way that hypertexts are displayed on its pages, products of work with these major questions: What are the traps set within our own subjectivity that lead us to validate an unjust and unequal oppressive system? What is and how does this sinister dialectic installed within us that prevents us from rebelling against what deprives us of material goods, symbolic goods and life itself? Why are those who have least the least likely to oppose a system that excludes or exploits them, but does not consider them? Why are those who have nothing to lose, other than their chains, the most submissive and obedient to the exclusion project? How is it explained that the workers and the most neglected sectors of society do not rebel against those who submit them; How do you explain that the oppressed vote for their executioners?

Enrique Carpintero does not answer these questions if answering means closing them. Enrique Carpintero makes them work. And, for that, to make them work, he turns to Freud, Spinoza, Rozitchner and a bibliographic universe where his editing talent shines. With all these resources he is building a conceptual structure, he is polishing theoretical terms that in the way of instruments allow him to operate in the intricate space of the individual and the societal.