Édouard Pichon (24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst. He was born in Sarcelles and died in Paris.
Édouard Pichon | |
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| Born | 24 June 1890 Sarcelles, France |
| Died | 20 January 1940 (aged 49) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
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| Fields | Pediatrics, Linguistics, Psychoanalysis |
Career
editA distinguished and innovative grammarian,[1] Pichon was analysed by Eugénie Sokolnicka, and became a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society in 1926.[2] A member of the royalist and reactionary Action Française, Pichon represented the jingoistic strand of French psychoanalysis,[3] with his belief in "the genuine culture and the true civilization of our country...this fundamental Frenchness".[4]
Through his mixture of linguistic and psychoanalytic thinking, Pichon was a powerful influence on Jacques Lacan (as well as a practical mentor).[5] In Écrits, Lacan paid tribute to "a divination that I can attribute only to his practise of semantics...that guided him in people's dark places".[6]
Among the psychoanalytic concepts introduced by what Élisabeth Roudinesco called Pichon's "fatalist genius",[7] were those of oblatory, scotomization, and foreclosure.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ L. Waugh, Contributions to Grammatical Studies (1979) p. 180
- ^ L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 98
- ^ L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507
- ^ Quoted in E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 148-9
- ^ E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 118 and p. xiii-iv
- ^ J. Lacan, Écrits (1997) p. 108
- ^ E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 276
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