2015

The picture of homer with this doom message is not imprecise. Some historical cultures thought that “new year celebration” were commemoration of the creation of the world. This mythical thinking is yet still alive in our daily life and our modern culture.

This year is particular because it’s the last year before begin professional practice. That is exciting because it’s an important step on my career. I want to close this stage of my studies and begin with this other. I’m going to choose a practice in clinical psychology.  

Academically this year has some important courses. I learned so much in this course called “estructura y accion social en Latinoamerica”. This course is very interesting and taught to me many new concepts to analyze actual context in Chile.

In addition to this course I remember this course called “trastornos de personalidad” this is a course where I can apply all concepts and theories about human psychology in clinical cases, diagnosis and treatment.

And finally: It's just one month before Star wars the force awakens premiere. That is so exciting. No everyone likes the prequel movies but I have hope in this new trilogy for present to us new interesting characters, story, and etcetera. My family and I are big fans of this saga; we will go together to cinema to watch this movie.  

An author: Judith Butler

I want to write about Judith Butler. She is an American author, she was born in 1956.

She has working in topics like: feminism, gender, philosophy, politics, ethics, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, and so on.  She wrote books and papers that prefigure many debates of the last decade. She wrote some books like: Bodies That Matter, Precarious Life, Senses of the Subject and others.

One of her most important ideas is: the performative constitution of gender. She propose to us that gender is a reading, an interpretation make for “the others” for our behavior or acts and our sexuality isn’t a “expression” of an underlying gender .

I always say “if I had to choose a book to make a frame work to write a paper, I would choose her book <The Psychic Life of Power> (1997)”. This book is a recompilation of papers where Butler discusses about identity, gender and philosophy.  I find one of her thesis interesting in particular: we want to, we love to, our enslavement. We are in life always self-enslavement.

When I read something of her work every reading I do is to learn something new or a new perspective about what is interesting me in that moment.  

I’m not sure if I “admire” her. I don’t know if she lived a hard life or if she had to encourage difficult situations. At least I always say to me if I'm at a standstill with a thought or theoretic problem, I will find support in her work.