Gerardo Arenas is an Argentinian Lacanian psychoanalyst. He holds a PhD in nuclear physics. He is a member of the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana in Buenos Aires, the World Association of Psychoanalysis, the Oscar Masotta Institute and Lacanian Action. He is a postgraduate professor at the Psychoanalytic Clinic of the National University of San Martín and the director of the Itaipú International Seminar. He obtained his degree in psychology and physics. He completed his postgraduate studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Buenos Aires (uba). He was a professor of psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of John Fitzgerlad Kennedy University, and he completed his postgraduate studies in psychoanalysis at the University Institute Patricios.
He is the author of numerous books on Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Estructura lógica de la interpretación (Logical Structure of Interpretation), En busca de lo singular (In Search of the Singular), La flecha de Eros (Eros’ Arrow), Los 11 Unos del 19 más uno (The 11 Ones of XIX Plus One), Sobre la tumba de Freud (On Freud’s Grave), Pasos hacia una economía de los goces (Steps to an Economy of Jouissances), and Ombligos (Navels). In addition to two fiction books, he also compiled several books, and translated into Spanish numerous works by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, and others. A Practical Way to Feel Better is his first book in English.
