Juan-David Nasio
French psychoanalyst (born 1942)

Juan-David Nasio (born 1942 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founders of Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris.
Biography
After qualifying as a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, Nasio completed his residency as a psychiatrist at the hospital in Lanús. In 1969, he emigrated to France where he attended the classes of Jacques Lacan.
He was a professor at the University of Paris VII Sorbonne for 30 years from 1971 and for three years had a seminar in the école Freudienne de Paris (1977-1980). After its dissolution in 1980, he founded the Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris (1986). He received the French Legion of Honour.
In addition to participating in Lacan's seminars and translating his Écrits into Spanish, he is the author of 27 books published in French, six of which have been translated into English. Including English, his books have been translated into 14 languages: German, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Turkish.
From 2022 to 2024, he told twenty-two patient stories in the radio program L’inconscient (France Inter), which aired weekly and reached a wide audience, according to France Inter.
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