Are the limits of what can be said – the field of the non-verbal, the texture of affects, everything that resists symbolic capture – the true challenge facing psychoanalysis today? In her thought-provoking podcast, “The Body as a Pulsing Frontier”, Ema Ponce de León offers her particular view on the theme of the body in psychoanalysis, developed through her dialogue with Freud and with contemporary authors.

Ema Ponce de León is a psychoanalyst working with children, adolescents, adults, and couples. She holds a PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Titular Member with teaching functions) of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association. She currently serves as Chair of the IPA Inter-Committee on Child Abuse and as the Uruguayan liaison to COWAP (Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis). She has published numerous articles in national and international books and journals, and is co-editor of the volume Violencias. Género–Infancia–Sociedad (Violences. Gender – Childhood – Society).

This episode is presented in English and Spanish.

Guest: Ema Ponce de León
Hosts: Chris Heath, Florencia Biotti, Massimiliano Guerrieri

30 June 2026