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About Proyecto al Sur

Objective: The Fundación Proyecto al Sur is a private, independent, non-profit organization created in 1991 with the purpose of promoting research on the links between psychoanalysis and culture. Since its creation the Fundación has organized and co-organized numerous academic activities in Argentina and abroad.

Authorities : Carlos Bruck ( President) / Ramiro Perez Duhalde / Stella Prado / Ricardo Sanchez

ACTIVITIES

Selected activities organized by the Fundación:

Fifteen years of the Fundación Proyecto al Sur
During the fifteen years lifespan of the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur, a group of psychoanalysts, critics, artists and academy members have participated at lectures, conferences and books: Federico Aberastury, Ana Amado, Jorge Aulicino, Liliana Baldo, Libertad Berkowiez, Mariano Betelu, Luis Bilbao, Silvia Bleichmar, Osvaldo Boffa, Ivonne Bordelois, Alicia Borinsky, Graciela Boticella, Carlos Bruck, Carolina Bruck, Enrique Carpintero, Nicolás Casullo, Isidoro Cheresky, Carlos Chernov, Marcelo Chirico, Laura Corvalan , Arturo Cuervo,Manuel Cruz,Pirosca Csuri, Jose Luis de Diego, Héctor Depino, Ernesto Domenech, Diamela Eltit, Alicia Entel, Horacio Etchegoyen, Carlos Fraiman, Guillermo Ferschtut, Manuela Fingueret, Judit Filc, Andrea Fridman, Ricardo Forster, German Garcia, Eduardo Gandolfo, Jorge Glusberg, Ana Maria Gomez, Eduardo Gonzalez, Miguel Grinberg, Eduardo Grüner, Rosana Guber, Jorge Halperin, Jorge Helman, Carmen Heuser, Mara Heuser, Noe Jitrik,Tamara Kamenszain, Samuel Krinsky, Jorge La Ferla Maria Ines Lagos, Héctor Libertella, Gustavo Lopez Armentia, Josefina Ludmer, Liliana Lukin, Jaime Lutemberg, Marita Manzotti, Alejandra Mahile, Silvia Manzini, Elisa Marino, Norberto Marucco, Luis Mazella, Susana Mazzetti, Jeffrey Mehlman, Walter Mignolo, Silvia Molloy, Rosines Monner Sans, Maria Negroni, Juan Orbe, Julio Palacio, Jorge Panesi, Fernando Peirone, Carlos Perez, Marta Pérez, Ramiro Pérez Duhalde, Marcelo Pichon Riviere, Mariano Plotkin, Randolph Pope, Orfilia Poleman, Stella Prado, Norberto Rabinovich, Juan Ritvo, Nicolás Rosa, Leon Rozichner, Adriana Rubistein, Rudy, Sergio Staude, Susana Sternbach, Oscar Strasnoy, Mauricio Szuster, Oscar Traversa, Clorindo Testa, Miguel Tollo, Fernando Ulloa, Luisa Valenzuela, Isidoro Vegh, Florencia Verlatsky, Sergio Visacovsky, Catalina Winderbaum and Laura Yusem.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Mal Estar Book-Magazine
In March 2006 will appear the 4th volume of our Book-Magazine Mal Estar, which includes a dossier about Femininity and Feminism. Writers: Alicia Borinsky, Ivonne Bordelois, Carlos Bruck, Pablo de Santis, Tamara Kamenszain, Maria Inés Lagos, Héctor Libertella, Clara Obligado, Gloria Pampillo, Randolph Pope, Juan Bautista Ritvo, Rudy, Clara Obligado, Sylvia Molloy, Jorge Aulicino, Elizabeth Jelin, Nicolás Casullo, Ricardo Forster and Diamela Eltit
Annual Conference
the 10th Annual Conference of the Fundacion will take place on Monday, April the 3rd, at the Auditorium of the Museum of Latin-American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA - Constantini),.
Lucien Freud Award
During the 10th Annual Conference of the Fundacion, the name of the winner of the 2005 Lucien Freud Award and the 2006 edition will be anounced

Lucien Freud Award
You can find the basis for the 2006 editión here.

PAST ACTIVITIES

"Memory Re/constructions" Conference
The 9th Conference of the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur took place on March 2005 in the Auditorium of the Latin-American Art Museum of Buenos Aires with the subject
"Memory Re/constructions". Some of the participants were: Carlos Bruck, Nicolás Casullo, Ricardo Forster, Rosana Guber, Elizabeth Jelin, Tamara Kamenszain and Mariano Plotkin.
MAL ESTAR
The third issue of the magazine-book MAL ESTAR: psychoanalysis / culture has been published with works about the subject: Repetition, sinister, representation.
Participants in this issue: Ana Amado, Jorge Aulicino, Alicia Borinsky, Carlos Brück, Piroska Csuri, Arturo Cuervo, Alicia Entel, Ricardo Forster, Eduardo Gandolfo, Witold Gombrowicz, Ana Maria Gómez, Eduardo González, Miguel Grinberg, Jorge La Ferla, Héctor Libertella, Alejandra Mahile, Julio Palacio, Rudy, Isidoro Vegh and Sergio Visacovsky.

Gathering: Cortázar / Gombrowicz: Estrangement and Exile

The Gathering Cortázar / Grombrowicz: Estrangement and Exile took place on August 2003.
Speakers on this event were: Alicia Borinsky (Boston University), Miguel Grinberg, Ivone Bordelois, Guillermo Piro and the musicianOscar Strasnoy (Composer of "History" based upon text by Witold Gombrowicz).
Closing words by Carlos Brück.

Mal / Estar.
A public lecture of the 2nd volume of our book-magazine Mal Estar : Psychoanalysis / Culture took place in December 2003, at the National Museum of Fine Arts as an end to the year activities. Carlos Bruck, Carlos Fraiman, Hector Libertella and Fernando Ulloa talked about Mal Estar content.
Époque History

In May and October 2003, with the sponsorship of the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur, two activities organized by Sigma.com took place. In the first one "About genres and representations" intervened the italian psychoanalist Graziela Magherini, Arturo Cuervo, Mario Antmann. In the second panel "The construction of the significant psychoanalysis in Argentina" included the presence of Mariano Plotkin, Carlos Bruck, Sergio Visacovsky, Carlos Fraiman and the coordination of Gabriela Trapero.

Mal Estar: Psychoanalysis / Culture
In November 2002 has been published the 2nd issue of MAL ESTAR, the book-magazine of the Fundacion.
This Volume includes a dossier: "From the golden 60's to the metallic 2000" with articles written by: Horacio Etchegoyen, Nicolás Casullo, Isidoro Vegh, Nicolas Rosa, Judit Filc, German Garcia, Marcelo Pichon Riviere, Miguel Tollo, Rudy, Blas de Santos, Jorge Halperin, Silvia Bleichmar and Mariano Plotkin.
Columns by Jorge Aulicino, Ana Amado, Hector Libertella, Maria Negroni and texts by Ana María Gómez and Jorge Glusberg.

VIII Conferences of the Fundacion: Tying the psychoanalysis
In November 2002, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
The Conference theme arises from a freudian proposal to tie again psychoanalysis to a group of doctrines (history, anthropology, humor, narrative, polithology) and so to be able to make new propositions.
Participants: Carlos Bruck, Mariano Plotkin, Isidoro Cheresky, Eduardo Gruner, Jorge Halperin, Arturo Cuervo, Carlos Fraiman, Ernesto Domenech. Rosana Guber, Rudy and Hector Libertella .

First Forum of the Fundacion
In April 2002, took place the first exchange forum, with two thematic axis: a psychoanalysis clinic and a culture clinic.
Both forums registered a very high number of participants from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, U.S.A, Spain, France, Uruguay and Venezuela.

In association with the University of New York in Argentina, in November 2001, took place the conference: "The psychoanalysis in culture / the culture of psychoanalysis"
A group of analists, authors, critics and artists (Horacio Etchegoyen, Silvia Bleichmar, Nicolás Rosa, Miguel Tollo, Judit Filc, Luisa Valenzuela, Nicolás Casullo, Isidoro Vegh, Norberto Marucco, Leon Rozichner, Marcelo Pichon Riviere, Jorge Halperin, Eduardo Gruner, Rudy, German Garcia) lectured at five different panels.

In December 2001 concluded the first quarter of the Psychoanalysis Postgraduate, organized by Net Schools with the sponsorship of the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur.

In August 2001 the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur and Ediciones Corregidor presented the first volume of: Mal Estar: Psychoanalysis / Culture at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Writers in this issue: Ana Amado, Carlos Bruck, Enrique Carpintero, Marcelo Chirico, Nicolás Casullo, Carlos Chernov, Ernesto Domenech, Alicia Entel, Ana Maria Gomez, Noe Jitrik, Marita Manzotti, Maria Laura Mendez, Oscar Traversa, Isidoro Vegh

Organised by the Fundacion Proyecto al Sur and Topia magazine, on October 1th 2000 started the First Psychoanalysis Virtual Congress: "The Psychoanalysis in spanish from the South of the World". During 20 days an intense activity took place through Internet discussion forums around this axis:
a) Third Millennium: Culture and its Dissatisfactions
b) Third Millennium: Expectations for the psychoanalytical practice
The final part of this event was the celebration of three panels at the National Fine Arts Museum. Two of them included academic and representative institutions of Psychoanalysis in Argentina, and in the final panel lectured, among others, E. Carpintero and C. Bruck, President of the Fundacion and sponsor of the congress.
This event had more than 2.000 subscribers not only from Argentina but from 30 other countries. Eighty works written by invitation or submitted by participants and selected by the Reading Committee were presented.

The Fundacion Proyecto al Sur signed an agreement of exchange and participation with the Faculty of Psychology of the National University of Buenos Aires. Part of this project it was the organisation of panels, seminars and publications that took into account the interests and objectives of each institution. Buenos Aires, March 2000.

Panel about The Question of the Cure. Ed. National University of La Plata, at the Alianza Francesa, Centro Fortabat. November 1999, Buenos Aires

" July 1999: Sponsorship of the conference "Malestares del Nuevo Milenio" in New York City.
" 1998: International conference on "Psychoanalysis, Culture and Bilingualism" Universidad de San Juan de Puerto Rico.
" November 1996: Co-Sponsor or conference "Writing Lives. An International Conference on Biography and Autobiography" Boston University, Boston, MA.
" May 1996: Conference "Cien años del Museo, cien años del psicoanálisis, cien años de cultura" at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
" November 1995: Sponsor of colloquium "Patagonia, Síntoma, Palabra, Imagen. A Colloquium on the movie 'La película del rey". Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
" November 1993: Sponsor of conference "Autobiography and the Unconscious: A Conference on the Scene or Writing" Duke University, Durham, NC.
" October 1993: Co- organizer of conference "Autobiography and Writing" with the Americas Society, New York City.
" October 1993: Sponsor of conference "Psychoanalysis and Narrative" CUNY, Graduate Center, New York City.

The Fundación has just organized a Department of History of Psychoanalysis. Among the foreign members of the Department is Professor Thomas Glick from Boston University who will collaborate with the project.

Additional activities:
book presentations, talks,

Publications: Since 1991 the Fundación publishes journal: Mal Estar (quarterly)

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