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José Bleger was born in Argentina, in Santa Fe Province, in 1922. He died in Buenos Aires in 1972. Besides being a prominent psychoanalyst (he published six books in 49 years), José Bleger was a thinker with various interests and intellectual and cultural belongings. He was a political activist with outstanding autonomy who was loyal to his convictions. He deemed his Jewish identity as important as his ideological convictions; this is the reason why some (Volnovich, 1992) called him “the red rabbi” of the Psychoanalytic Association.
In his papers, conferences, classes and institutional activity, he attempted to correlate psychoanalysis with other scientific areas, such as general psychology, academic teaching and also with some issues linked to mental health. In this context, it is worth highlighting that he was faculty at the School of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires since its creation in 1956. He taught three subjects: “Introduction to general psychology”, “Psycho-hygiene and institutional psychology” and “Personality”. He actively participated in discussions regarding the professional role of psychologists and the difference between the general psychological field and the psychoanalytic field .
As head of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association’s research center (Enrique Racker Center)1 from 1967 to 1969, he coordinated a study that gathered data on psychoanalytic therapeutic processes, analytical documentation of diagnosis and psychopathologic indicators. He returned to theses subjects several times in his life.
As I mentioned before, Bleger published six books and several articles, essays, and introductions, as well as making contributions in other papers.