Dr. Fernanda Magallanes is a practicing psychoanalyst in Mexico city. She is the author of Psychoanalysis, the Body and the Oedipal Plot (Routledge) , ¿Qué quiere una mujer?: Lo femenino en psicoanálisis (Letra viva) as well as multiple articles in specialized magazines and chapters in collective books. She has presented several sconferences, courses and workshops in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, US and Uruguay. Magallanes dedicates her life to psychoanalysis and its intersections with theories of corporeality, art , writing and feminisms. Her theoretical research ran during the last years alongside her seminars at Universidad Iberoamericana, the research group Philosophy and Psychoanalysis as Political Fronteers at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and seminairs on sexual difference, feminisms, psychoanalysis and dissident writing at Círculo Psicoanalítico Mexicano. It now runs more independently into re-reading Freud´s Metapsychology and different theories of corporeality towards social forms of intervention through writing.

Fernanda holds a PhD in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at The European Graduate School and an MA in Psychotherapy from the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association. Alongside she did an academic residency at The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry of the New School for Social Research and a clinical residency at the Personality Disorders Institute at the Weill Cornell Hospital with Otto Kernberg and worked in various mental health institutions. For long she has worked horizontally with different psychoanalytic communities while sustaining a non-affiliation basis.