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It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our friend and colleague, Luis Kancyper on 5 August 2018. His death is a profound loss to the psychoanalytic community.
Besides Dr. Kancyper's enormous intellectual capabilities, his curiosity, creativity, and generosity in sharing his ideas, we were always touched by his particular enthusiasm, sensitivity, and his capacity for friendship.
Luis Kancyper was born and lived in Buenos Aires. He was a training analyst with the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. Between 1989 and 2012 he was a professor of the Institute of Psychoanalysis Angel Garma, of the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. He acted in the capacity of scientific secretary at the same society between 1994 and 1996. He was a full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and was the recipient of the Sigourney Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2014. Luis Kancyper was a prolific author. Amongst his published books, which have been translated into several languages are
Jorge Luis Borges or Narcissus' Labyrinth ; Resentment and Remorse ; Jorge Luis Borges or the Passion of Friendship ; The Confrontation between Generations ; The Fraternal Complex ; Adolescence: The End of Naiveté ; Terminable and Interminable Resentment ; Friendship: A Chosen Brotherhood ; and Towards an Expanded Clinic and Metapsychology . His thinking weaved together the main insights of Freud with Klein, Lacan, Green, Winnicott, the Barangers, and Hannah Arendt, among others.
Luis Kancyper's work on the fraternal complex is an essential contribution to this topic. He underscores the importance of the lateral dimension and of the specific unconscious processes and fantasies inherent to fraternal relationships (Kancyper, 2004). His work on this subject has important clinical implications. He insisted on the importance of taking into