Édouard Pichon (24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst. He was born in
Sarcelles
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In the south of the commun ...
and died in
Paris
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.
Career
A distinguished and innovative grammarian, Pichon was analysed by
Eugénie Sokolnicka
Eugénie Sokolnicka (née ''Kutner''; 14 June 1884, Warsaw – 19 May 1934, Paris) was a French psychoanalyst. An analysand of Freud's, she helped bring psychoanalysis to France in the 1920s, analysing several of the younger psychiatrists at St. A ...
, and became a founding member of the
Paris Psychoanalytic Society
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in 1926. A member of the royalist and reactionary
Action Française
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, Pichon represented the jingoistic strand of French psychoanalysis, with his belief in "the genuine culture and the true civilization of our country...this fundamental Frenchness".
Through his mixture of linguistic and psychoanalytic thinking, Pichon was a powerful influence on
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...
(as well as a practical mentor). 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".
Among the psychoanalytic concepts introduced by what
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Élisabeth Roudinesco ( ro , Rudinescu; born 10 September 1944) is a French historian and psychoanalyst, affiliated researcher in history at Paris Diderot University, in the group « Identités-Cultures-Territoires ». She also conducts a seminar ...
called Pichon's "fatalist genius",
[E. Roudinesco, ''Jacques Lacan and Co'' (1990) p. 276] were those of oblatory,
scotomization Scotomization is a psychological term for the mental blocking of unwanted perceptions, analogous to the visual blindness of an actual scotoma.
Controversies
Reviving in the 1920s a term initially used by Charcot in connection with hysteria, the F ...
, and
foreclosure
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.
See also
References
External links
Pichon, Edouard
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1890 births
1940 deaths
French psychoanalysts
People from Sarcelles
20th-century French psychologists