MOTIVATION LETTER
Study in Russia
It is very motivating to study in Russia, a society strongly rooted in its culture and
history and that defends its roots. Just several years ago I received instruction in the
historical-cultural psychology of Lev Semionovich Vygotsky through the work in
Spanish "Evolutionary and pedagogical psychology in the USSR" which is a
compilation of very interesting and important contributions from psychologists in the
line of the foundations proposed by Vygosky. I believe and firmly defend the deeply
historical-cultural character of the human psyche and I do this not only from what
Vygotsky called the higher psychic processes, but also from a perspective that
involves drives, the unconscious, desire, since I currently have a master's degree in
clinical psychoanalysis and a doctorate in research in psychoanalysis.
The Vygotsky school and psychoanalysis assign a constitutive role for the human
psyche to language, but in addition, based on the magnificent contributions of
Leontiev, historical-cultural psychology also takes activity as a constitutive pillar of
the psyche, while Non-naively idealistic approaches to psychoanalysis embrace the
constitutive that comes from interactions (Lorenzer) and acts (Lacan). So studying
the Russian language and studying the activities, interactions, actions and acts
framed in Russian society is a path that without detour leads to apprehending much
of the spirit of the Russian world that has always fascinated me since my childhood.
Having the possibility of studying in Russia is related to my scientific, research and
professional objectives: 1) Reveal the links between cognitive skills, functional
organs, mental and body schemas on the one hand, with the drives, affects, desires
and topics proposed from psychoanalysis on the other hand. 2) Work from a clinical
and also pedagogical perspective on each of these aspects and the existing and
revealed links between those same aspects.
Regarding my academic achievements, I mention that I am a psychologist, and as I
already mentioned, a master in clinical psychoanalysis and a doctor in research in
psychoanalysis. I achieved my last two academic titles with outstanding performance
(Honorable Mentions). Regarding my professional achievements, I have already
made considerable progress in terms of the objectives that I mentioned since I have
published 6 articles in prestigious journals, some of them indexed. In 2023 I also
carried out a peer review service for an academic article for the “Latin American
Journal of Fundamental Psychopathology”. My academic and professional
achievements can be seen in my ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5073-3013
In my articles I take contributions from various authors, mainly from those who, from
psychoanalysis, psychology and pedagogy, escape the narrowness and dogmatism