Episodio 17 : Ser legión (Juan Pedro)

19 Sept 2025 · 38 min
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In this episode of the Framework podcast, host Leandro Stitzman interviews Argentine psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and author Juan Pedro Baena. The conversation begins with Baena’s professional background—his work in psychoanalytic societies in Córdoba and Mendoza, his role on a psychiatric licensing committee, and his dual identity as a clinician and a father. He reflects on the future of his fields, arguing that psychoanalysis remains a vibrant, adolescent‑like discipline while psychiatry faces an existential decline due to practitioners’ reluctance to undergo analysis and the high risk of burnout. Baena shares how psychoanalysis transformed his own life, recounting early encounters with Freud’s texts and a film that inspired his medical career. He describes psychoanalysis as both a therapeutic method and a research art that can soften hard sciences, citing his work in psychosomatic interconsultation. The dialogue moves to a philosophical discussion of ideas. Baena defines an idea as a richly rooted formulation that should stay “unsaturated” to allow growth. He labels war and dogmatism as dangerous ideas because they embody death‑pulses and foster exclusion. Using the metaphor of a global seed bank, he proposes a “bank of ideas” preserving life‑affirming concepts—love, solidarity, human connection, and the instinct to regroup—while discarding authoritarianism, torture, abuse, and homicidal impulses. When asked who he would take on a planetary terraforming mission, Baena first mentions his family and close friends, then abstracts the desired traits: intelligence, emotional warmth, and health. He warns that intelligence can be wielded for creation or destruction, noting the risk of “intelligent hijoputes” emerging in future generations. A central current of the interview is Baena’s fascination with the “protomental” (or prenatal) mental level, a concept derived from Bion that precedes language and symbol formation. He explains his ongoing research into this pre‑verbal mental space and its relation to psychotic functioning. He reveals the deepest mystery that haunts him: the finitude of human existence, questioning why life is bounded and expressing a yearning for an answer. Regarding professional freedom, Baena emphasizes his autonomy in choosing patients and colleagues, and cites writing as his most liberating act. The conversation concludes with mutual gratitude, a brief exchange about future gatherings (the “Juegos Bionianos”), and a musical closing: Joji’s “Glimpse of Us,” which Baena describes as a poignant, melancholic song that encapsulates the episode’s emotional tone. Overall, the episode blends personal narrative, theoretical reflection, ethical speculation, and imaginative scenarios, offering insight into Baena’s psychoanalytic worldview, values, and the broader cultural role of ideas.

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