An archive is closed, a path is built

An archive is closed, a path is built

Psychoanalysis and Desire

In this interview, we have the case of someone we will call Pedro. Someone who, with courage, ‘has closed an archive of what he once thought was his dream job, to go and build his desire’.

Pedro says that he once dreamed of working in the public sector in his home country. However, ‘after a while, he realised that it was not necessarily his desire, but rather a way of sabotaging his own dreams while supporting the desire of others’.

On 31 December, ‘when the offices close, when you organise the documents on your desk and file them away until you return, he decided to close the drawer where they are stored. He closed it so as not to return. He un / archived his desire’.

He took on other jobs from which he says he ‘learned much more than from what he once considered his ideal. He found himself closer to those who had their feet on the ground, moving away from what he saw in those who felt closer to the sky’. From there, he decided to migrate to the United States ‘to continue learning from the places and people he encounters’.

His encounter with psychoanalysis ‘was not due to any specific reason. It came about when he heard someone who was undergoing analysis at the time and, in some way, it aroused his curiosity.’ He continues his analytical experience from a couple of years ago, ‘serving himself of what he understands, while accepting and moving forward with his desire’.

‘He has gone from the world of road construction, bridges and aqueducts to building a family’. In the United States, he met his wife, who, he tells, ‘was willing from the outset to commit to a future together’.

Of the analysis, he says, ‘I have learned not to surround myself with saboteurs. The path to what you desire is not easy. It takes a few twists and turns, even working on many things you never imagined’.

Without abandoning his significant ‘construction,’ he tells us at the end, ‘it’s about continuing to build roads, but this time those of desire and family. There, love has been fundamental’.