Extimacies
Critical Theory from the Global South

Alejandro Cerda Rueda
Universidad Iberoamericana

Alejandro Cerda Rueda

Participating Scholar

Alejandro Cerda-Rueda is a Mexican psychoanalyst practicing in Mexico City. He obtained his doctorate from the European Graduate School (Switzerland) under the direction of Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek. Postgraduate professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) as well as visiting professor by the Sociedad Freudiana de la Ciudad de México (SFCM). Since 2009, he has founded and served as senior editor at Paradiso editores. He has compiled the books: Schreber. Los archivos de la locura (UIA, 2009), Sex and Nothing: Bridges From Psychoanalysis to Philosophy (Routledge, 2016); and authored En la penumbra del sujeto. Aportaciones para una metapsicología freudiana (Prometeo, 2020). Recipient of the Andrew Mellon Grant to participate in the international co-research program Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South (2019-2022).

Publications & Projects

Transferencia y los implicaciones políticas del análisis

2021

Cerda-Rueda, A. 2021. “Transferencia y los implicaciones políticas del análisis", Teoría y crítica de la psicología 15.

in the shadow of the subject

En la penumbra del sujeto. Aportaciones para una metapsicología freudiana

2020

Cerda-Rueda, A. 2020. En la penumbra del sujeto. Aportaciones para una metapsicología freudiana. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.