The joy (Freud·e) of A-new flight

The joy (Freud·e) of A-new flight

Psychoanalysis and Desire

At thirteen, Juan Camilo wanted to learn more about flying. According to him, ‘it was something he decided early on in his life, from the day his favourite aunt took him from Geneva to Barcelona’.

On that trip, ‘he was able, for the first time, upon landing, to sit in the seat of an Airbus A320. That’s when he knew he wanted to fly!’ Ten years passed since that day, ‘until he was able to sit in that seat again, as a co-pilot’.

Shortly after the COVID pandemic, questions of a different nature began to occupy his thoughts. His curiosity had been aroused, ‘about why one does what one does, thinks how one thinks, says what one says. And with this, his interest in psychology, the university programme he is currently studying’.

Psychoanalysis, Juan Camilo tells us, has ‘also come with several questions related to his curiosity.’ Questions that were not new at all, ‘many have been there for quite some time’. At the same time, he says, ‘he has dedicated himself to the search for answers, his answers’.

Right there, when he says ‘his answers,’ there is a pause that creates space for silence in the interview. Juan Camilo, meditating a little on the above, resumes with the following words: ‘answers that were logically given, not only by those who believe they know what is happening within oneself, but because one places that responsibility on them. The responsibility that one does not want to assume’.

This is how he arrives at his analysis: ‘He finds himself in a world far removed from protocols and checklists. Nor does he find anyone who gives him the answers. There, his analyst, Yoany Rendón, asks the questions that, based on his knowledge (savoir), will lead him to answer himself. Thus assuming his responsibility.’

Juan Camilo is currently in his fourth semester of psychology. He wants to combine his life in aviation with listening to help others. ‘In his experience with psychoanalysis, he has been finding answers to what causes him suffering.’ An experience that addresses the cause.