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I first came across the work of Juan Tubert-Oklander while researching the contributions of Enrique Pichon-Riviere to group psychoanalysis. I was immediately impressed, not only by the breadth of Tubert-Oklander's knowledge of the subject of group psychotherapy but by his incisive and clear renderings of the concepts of the at times obscure, playful, and complex Pichon-Riviere. Tubert-Oklander is an author who is as much an educator as a deep analytical thinker. Since discovering his work, I have seen references to his papers here and there throughout the contemporary literature, as well as several of his articles in major English-language psychoanalytic journals. In these he deals mostly with the subjects of groups, relationality, and the analytic field.
Tubert-Oklander is an Argentinian analyst, a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association who lives in Mexico City. There he is a training and supervising analyst at the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association, as well as a group analyst and a member of the Group-Analytic Society. Mauricio Beuchot Puente, his coauthor and long-time colleague, is a philosopher born in Coahuila, Mexico, trained in philosophy and theology with a specialty in hermeneutics and psychoanalytic epistemology. In all of these subjects, Beuchot Puente has published extensively, and his interlocutors over the years have included Paul Ricoeur, Karl-Otto Apel, and Jean Grondin, to name a few. It is to Beuchot Puente that the concept of an analogical hermeneutics can be credited, though the idea can be traced back to Aristotle. In this short and rewarding book, he and Tubert-Oklander bring analogical hermeneutics to a psychoanalysis that they see as in desperate need of epistemological grounding.
To the reader, however, the authors are Mauricio, the philosopher, and Juan, the psychoanalyst. As they explain in the opening pages, the