Lucas Ballestín

was born in Buenos Aires. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, with a focus in psychoanalytic theory, at The New School for Social Research. He teaches in the Philosophy Department at Fordham College and the Culture and Media Department at Eugene Lang. He is a psychoanalytic candidate at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York. His work focuses on the applications of psychoanalytic theory to political analysis, with a specific focus on what can be called 'psychoanalytic ideology critique'.