ABSTRACT
As a brief biographical note, authors recall that Madeleine and Willy Baranger came to Argentina in 1946. Willy was born in Algeria and was a professor of philosophy; Madeleine was a professor of classics in France. They subsequently joined the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Afterwards they moved to Montevideo, where they created the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association in 1955. They both received the “Mary Sigourney” Prize: Willy in 1993 and Madeleine in 2008. Nowadays, Madeleine continues working with her clinical practice and publications as well as contributing at scientific and institutional events. In a publication, Madeleine Baranger identifies the sources of their ideas: the authors who inspired them, as well as the psychoanalysts who subsequently based their thinking on similar proposals, some of them without yet knowing about field theory. The Barangers’ reflections induce them to think in terms of complex temporalities that appear in progressive and regressive, simultaneous or successive ways in the analytic process.
