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Preoccupied with the transmission of psychoanalysis, Daniel Gil, an Uruguayan psychoanalyst, wanted to create an anthology solely about psychoanalytic theory and practice and based on writings he has published over a career of thirty years. As is often the case, the road to hell was paved with good intentions: he realized it was impossible to refrain from engaging in constant dialogue with the voices of philosophy.
The appealing and catchy title of this book of more than two hundred pages, to be savored in small doses, invites the reader to wander through “dreaming thoughts” (Pontalis 2000), reflections, hypotheses, worries, and life experiences and opens up paths to one's own free associations.
Gil notes that he has had no formal training in philosophy but grew up listening to the lively discussions of adults in his home town of San José de Mayo.1 When reading the texts he has written over the years, it is nonetheless obvious that this domain has been a fertile field of exploration and reflection for him. His great erudition gives readers an appetite for expanding their own knowledge.
Errancias is divided into three parts. The first, “The Analyst's Place,” presents an atopia,2 a space of placelessness made of solitude between silence and speech, a twilight zone, a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas, allowing both withdrawal and openness, a dramatic experience of ephemeral brilliance, a symbolic wandering along an arduous path “made by walking”3 between desire, freedom, and death.