During september, the Center of Studies Alonso Lujambio presented the Lectureon literature and psychoanalysis – converging narratives with Dr. Estela Ruiz Milán, in collaboration with the Department of Gender, Diversity and Inclusion (SGDI). The event took place at Raúl Baillères Hall, and was moderated by Horacio Vives, director of Students Affairs, and Adriana Ortiz-Ortega, deputy director of SGDI.
Who is Estela Ruiz Milán?
Estela Ruiz Milán is an outstanding mexican psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. She has a Degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM) and got her Master’s in the same discipline in 1963. Later, in 1979, she got her PhD in Psychology by UNAM.
Estela’s professional experience is very diverse, including the direction of the Children’s Theater Center (INBA-SEP), the Department of Medical Psychology in the Medical Faculty at UNAM and the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. Also, she is the co-founder of the Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Society in Mexico City.
During the lecture she affirmed that literature has been a constant in her life, influenced by her father, who cultivated a deep appreciation for literature since childhood. Likewise, the meaningful relationships she kept have enriched even more her connection to the literary world, like her marriage to Luis Villoro and having raised two writers, Carmen and Juan Villoro.
Art enriches the self
During the lecture, Estela shared her experience with the double vocation in literature and psychoanalysis. Recognizing and cultivating this secondary vocation is crutial, regardless of when we do it, because it can only enrich out life in unexpected ways.
“In general, we all have a hidden second vocation that we would like to carry out and, in many occasions, we stick just with the one we chose as a trade and there is no remnant of something we would have wanted to have” she added.
Estela emphasized in the importance of exploring an art as this second vocation, whether it is music, plastic arts or drawing, stressing that these widen our humanistic essence.
“Search for a vocation that expands your humanistic side. This humanisitic side enriches, the technological side creates great advances but art enriches oneself.” she added.
Importance of the double vocation
As the lecture closing, Estela Ruiz Milán and Elena Poniatowska included 5 fundamental concepts about professional vocation. These are, the exploration of a hidden vocation, personal satisfaction and plenitude, the balance between the technological and the humanistic, the development of empathy and comprehension and the contribution to society.
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