Trauma or in Search of Lost Agency

Full Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researchers, level III. She was coordinator of the research projects “Philosophers after Freud” and “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis as Critical Boarders of the Political”. She is the author of Freud y Derrida: escritura y psique (Siglo XXI Editores, 2013) and Eros: Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (Siglo XXI Editores, 2017). This last book has been translated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2021). She has coordinated several collective books and published articles on the intersections between psychoanalysis and philosophy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Research Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Sciences; in 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar; in 2021 she received the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz UNAM recognition; and during Fall 2023 she was the Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is part of the advisory board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs coordinated by Judith Butler.