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The workshop was presented entirely in Spanish, as the members of the panel and conference room, filled to 75 per cent capacity, were mainly from Latin America.
The Moderator introduced the members of the Panel and emphasised the current importance of personal relationship, intellectual capacity, institutional struggle and the subject.
In his introduction, Juan Carlos Suarez warned us that we live in a sick world, in which transcendental values have been lost and hegemony given to neo-liberal genocide-capitalism and the power of ‘Thanatic narcissism’, which holds our lives and the future of our children in its hands under a shadow of anonymity. It is a world where everything has to be ‘fast, easy and cheap’, and psychoanalysis, being ‘slow, difficult and expensive’, seems to be losing force and efficiency. Nevertheless, as the presentations would underline, psychoanalysis constitutes a reserve of humanity, since it preserves rationality, the value of emotions, the seeking of truth and the importance of singular responsibility, and it will remain that way as long as it retains the disruptive character it has had since its birth.
Sahovaler's presentation did much to summarise the presentations as a whole. The theme of his paper was that ‘the virtual’ offers us the distraction of substitute satisfactions, giving us both a novel intoxicating addiction and the substance of the technological revolution we are living through; in so doing it generates a new discourse that is forming the structure for a new reality—that of ‘video-culture’—as a whole new way of maintaining social relationship between people preserved in images, and which creates new fads and new cultural shapes.
De Espiro defined ‘globalisation as an actual plan of the development of the capitalist system, which began in the seventeenth century and which has been studied in depth and was expanded to bring about the disappearance of other social systems’. Its consequences have been psychic adaptation, repetition-c