William Marcos da Silva

William Marcos is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, essayist, and writer. Born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, he moves between the worlds of psychoanalysis and philosophy with the serenity of someone who has made reading a way of life — always in the company of his five cats: Bilisgue, Pingo, Bonnie, Pretinha, Loopy Feroz, and his male cat Inox.

With a degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and a formation in Psychoanalysis since 2012, he has dedicated more than a decade to intellectual production in the humanities. He is the founder of the International Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he develops research, training, and critical thinking at the crossroads of clinic, theory, and culture.

The author of more than 40 works published internationally in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French, his output spans psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary fiction. Among his projects are Bible of Philosophy (a 6-volume series), the series The Unfinished Works of Psychoanalysis, Philosophers and Freedom, Hegel: Origin, System and Legacy, and the novel The Clinicians' Revolution — a parody of Orwell's Animal Farm, set in the world of psychoanalysis.

His writing explores the dialectic between reason and subjectivity, theory and practice, reality and fiction — with conceptual rigor and accessible language, addressed to both the specialist reader and the intellectually curious.