Scientific Conferences

Fernanda Magallenes, Ph.D. and
Marco Posadas, R.S.W, M.S.W, Ph.D.

This workshop brings together the work of Fernanda Magallanes and Marco Posadas in a collaborative exploration of gender, dreams, Eros, poetry, and alternative models of symbolization beyond the limits of normative psychoanalysis that organizes desire through binary gender, heterosexuality, and the Oedipal matrix. They propose that the creation of new forms of symbolization may be crucial not only for the consulting room, but also for contemporary social and political life; particularly, in relation to collective forms of existence, possibilities of community, and the symbolic conditions through which lives become livable, intelligible, and speakable. This workshop is conceived not as the presentation of a closed system, but as an alive space for thought where participants are invited into the process of imagining, questioning, and constructing alongside them.

Fernanda Magallanes, PhD: Dr. Magallanes is a psychoanalyst, writer, and independent scholar whose work focuses on gender, embodiment, Eros, feminist and decolonial psychoanalytic theory, and critiques of the Oedipal and patriarchal structures of symbolization. She is a founding member of Estudios Psicoanalíticos Contemporáneos in Mexico City. Dr. Magallanes is the author of Psychoanalysis, the Body and the Oedipal Plot (Routledge), ¿Qué quiere una mujer?: Lo femenino en psicoanálisis (Letra Viva), and Eros Violeta (Navarra), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in collective volumes. She has delivered lectures, seminars, and workshops internationally in institutions based in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Perú, Canada, the United States, England, and Uruguay. She holds a PhD with honors in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School, where she studied under Judith Butler. Alongside her private practice, she has worked in diverse mental health institutions and interdisciplinary clinical settings.

Marco Posadas, RSW, MSW, PhD: Dr. Posadas is a clinical social worker, licensed psychologist (MEX), and psychoanalyst in Toronto, Canada. He is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association, where he developed its sexual and gender diversity strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe, North American and Latin America. He is on faculty at several psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training institutes across North America and Latin America.

Dr. Posadas received the Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. Dr. Posadas served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award, and the Distinguished Social Worker of the year for Toronto award in 2022. Most recently, he was the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. He is co-editor of “Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences” published by Routledge (2025).