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Dr. Faimberg's psychoanalytic studies began in Argentina and were influenced by working with and learning from, among others, Willy Baranger, José Bleger, David Liberman, Jorge Mom, Enrique Pichon-Rivière, Antoine Corel, and by encounters with Bion's lectures. Later, living and working in France allowed her the opportunity to work with André Green, Piera Aulagnier, Jean Laplanche, Serge Leclaire, and Joyce McDougall (Faimberg, 2005, p. xi). English-language analysts were also influential, and the work of D. W Winicott, W R. D. Fairbairn, Hans Loewald, and Arnold Modell are cited among others. Dr. Faimberg established the Conference on Intracultural and Intercultural Psychoanalytic Dialogue and has co-chaired the British-French clinical meetings since 1993. Because she is an analyst who traverses nationalities, languages, and cultures without becoming landlocked in any one perspective, it is not surprising that in her first article published in English she references articles written in French, Spanish, and English, thus marking her experience in other cultures and languages and her commitment to think beyond local analytic positions.
Faimberg's body of published work began with a 1976 Spanish article in Revista de Psicoanálisis, followed the next year by a paper in the English-language International Journal of Psychoanalysis titled “The Snark Was a Boojum,” based on the Lewis Carroll poem. (This paper becomes, in a nod to the concept of reversal, the last chapter in her book The Telescoping of Generations). Embedded in “The Snark Was a Boojum” are several questions that remain central to her life's work. What are the goals of analysis? How are we steering the ship? What languages are we speaking—the