<p>From a coffee farm in rural Colombia to the psychoanalytic couch, Macario Giraldo has spent his life listening for the quiet forces that shape a human life: language, loss, desire, and love.</p><br><p>At the age of ten, Macario left his family to join the La Salle Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order that would become his home for the next twenty-five years. Beneath the structure of faith and vocation, an early sense of separation endured. Over time, it found expression as a desire for something he had long deferred: a family of his own.&nbsp;</p><br><p>A Fulbright scholarship brought Macario to Washington, D.C. It was here that he received a rare dispensation from the Church to leave the brotherhood and encountered psychology and the work of Jacques Lacan, which would shape the rest of his analytic life.</p><br><p>In dialogue with Colette Soler, an analysand of Lacan, as well as clinicians Marianne Goldberger and Hugh Mullan, Macario developed a distinctive approach to group therapy informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis. In his work, he listens not only to what is said, but to what stirs between people: the unconscious processes that emerge in groups, including conflict, desire, identification, and shared symbolic history.</p><br><p>In this episode, we explore:</p><p>✦&nbsp;Cause and triggers</p><p>✦&nbsp;Group therapy as a modern ritual</p><p>✦&nbsp;Lacanian thinking beyond the individual</p><p>✦&nbsp;The fantasy of complete satisfaction</p><p>✦&nbsp;Listening as a psychological practice</p><p>✦&nbsp;The journey to become your own friend</p><br><p>Macario invites us to wonder about the desires that take shape in relation to others, the limits of certainty, and how, over a lifetime, we might learn to live more truthfully with ourselves and with one another</p><br><p>Chapters&nbsp;</p><p>0:00:00 Introduction</p><p>0:03:21 Picasso and the Desire of Others</p><p>0:08:27 Presence, Absence, and the Fort-Da Game</p><p>0:15:18 From Coffee Farm to the Christian Brothers</p><p>0:18:53 Discovering Jacques Lacan</p><p>0:24:49 Jouissance: The Pursuit and Crisis of Desire</p><p>0:30:34 The Unexplored Gold Mine of Group Therapy</p><p>0:38:34 The Power of Listening</p><p>0:41:35 Anxiety is an Index of the Real</p><p>0:48:27 Faith after Dogma</p><p>0:55:35 The Journey to Become Your Own Friend</p><p>0:58:13 Gardens, Love, and Wonder: The Closing Note</p><br><p>Follow Wonderstruck:</p><p>Website: https://wonderstruck.org</p><p>Substack:&nbsp;https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/&nbsp;</p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpod&nbsp;</p><p>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661&nbsp;</p><p>Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>