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Janine was a founding member of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She participated in its birth in Montreal, Canada, during August 2006, and played a leading role in the last three IACFP congresses. Her presence was remarkable for the vivacity of her thinking, her ability as a communicator, and her openness to others.
A critical psychoanalyst, she has represented two worlds: France, from where her family emigrated after going through traumatic personal and social upheavals; and Argentina, which allowed her to complete her psychoanalytical training to be enriched by the new world, to continue to be nourished in her country of origin, and to become a citizen of the world.
My first personal encounter with Janine took place in 1981, at a time of personal crisis, at the end of a period of dictatorship in Argentina. This meeting inaugurated a connection between us based on our common background, and by two central figures of Argentine psychoanalysis: Marie Langer and Enrique Pichon Rivière. This connection continued in France through our annual meetings. Pichon Rivière marked the beginning of her interest in psychoanalysis as she worked for him as his English translator. Rue Copernic, where Pichon Rivière and his wife, the famous psychoanalyst Arminda Aberastury, lived in the 1950s, became a laboratory for meetings between artists and psychoanalysts. It was at this time that she started medical school and trained in psychoanalysis at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.
Her situation as an emigrant allowed her to understand that there are stories that cannot be shared because they correspond to different life scenarios. For her, this situation was a great opportunity to discover the logic of stories told within both countries, and to create a theory of the incomparability of subjectivity. She started out as an individual and group psychoanalyst, at a time when the group was considered an impure area of psychoanalysis.
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