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Proto-ética matricial is a compilation of four important texts by psychoanalyst, philosopher and artist Bracha L. Ettinger. The four philosophical essays on art and psychoanalysis were first published in the late 1990s and comprise: “The Red Cow Effect: The metramorphosis of hallowing the hollow and hollowing the hallow” , “The With-In-Visible Screen” , “Supplementary Jouissance and Feminine Sexual Rapport” (, ), and “Wit(h)nessing Trauma and the Matrixial Gaze: From phantasm to trauma, from phallic structure to matrixial sphere” (, ). The essays were translated to Spanish in the late 2010s by Julian Gutiérrez Albilla, who has also selected them and eloquently introduced them in this book. The manuscripts are well curated together and form a set of many of Ettinger’s main ideas.
Julian Gutiérrez’s translation is patient, loyal and specific. It brilliantly works with Ettinger’s games of language when using her concepts to find the exact words. Gutiérrez’s translation plays a fundamental role in building a bridge between Ettinger’s ideas on femininity and the actual passionate discussions in Spanish-speaking countries - specially in Argentina and Mexico - on sexual difference in psychoanalysis, subjectivity and possibilities to break the heterosexual mind implicit in psychoanalysis, or at least think of other forms of agency within it. Latin America is now one of the places in the world where psychoanalysis is mostly read and used for critical thought. With this translation, Bracha L. Ettinger’s core ideas will be read and hopefully will morph as well in the very different contexts while the work of translation is elegantly specific. As imported ideas, Ettinger’s work lies alongside that of Juliet Mitchell, Colette Chiland, Iréne Matthis, Jessica Benjamin, Toril Moi and Luce Irigaray for bringing imported possibilities of dialogue to the Latin American context of feminist psychoanalytic thought.