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Maintaining and working in the exercise of writing is always a complex task and a permanent work that must be exercised against the dominant tendency to remain in the dimension of what is already known or the mere repetition of a discourse that becomes anachronistic and distant. That our journal is celebrating 30 years of existence not only is an achievement that we should value and treasure, but also constitutes an action of resistance to everything that wants to subjugate the exercises of thought.
Thinking in psychoanalysis (and the exercise of the written word is a privileged way of expressing and developing thought) is a way of generating strengths of the psyche, but moreover in our case (IFPS), it is also the place of exchange and expression of the ideas that circulate among the members of our federation. The physical distances that separate us, the diverse and plural modalities that compose us, the difficulty of meeting personally, are all situations that, through the existence of the journal, can be partially confronted, and this makes it possible for the work and the ideas circulating among our members to rise to the surface and be debated.
For this to happen, we must overcome internal and external resistances: the internal ones are fundamentally related to the difficulty of exercising the act of writing. Generally, it is difficult for us to put into words what we do and to support our clinical practice conceptually. We must make ever greater efforts to confront this ankylosing inertia that invades us slowly but profoundly.
The external resistances are shaped by the fact that inevitably the exercise of thought, the circulation of journals, and the dissemination of texts have to do with the logic of the business world. This forces us to have to generate large amounts of economic resources to sustain the journal and to confront the hegemonic and almost monopolistic dynamics of the publishing houses. However, the work carried out by our journal is still going on,