School of Thought: 'Consciousness: Miquel Bassols'

If consciousness is only part of what we can know about our self, how far does everything that escapes it reach? Can we make a humble and radical experience of what we are that opens the door to exploring what we are not? What tools do we have to follow these lines of flight and how can we do it without going mad? Born in Barcelona in 1958, he is a psychoanalyst, member of the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano and of the École de la Cause freudienne. Doctor from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris 8, he has been president of the Association Mondiale de Psychanalyse. He is the author of several books, including La interpretación como malentendido (2001), Llull con Lacan. El amor, la palabra y la letra en la psicosis (2010), Lecturas de la página en blanco. La letra y el objeto (2011). Among his most recent works are Autoridad y autoritarismo (RBA, 2022) and Boscuria (Símbol, 2021). He also publishes texts and readings of psychoanalysis and literature on the blog Desescrits.