Guy Rosolato (1924–2012) was a French psychoanalyst, who was to become president of the
Association Psychoanalytique de France
Association may refer to:
*Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal
*Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry
*Voluntary associatio ...
(APF).
Life, career and contributions
Born in Istanbul, Rosolato served with the
Free French
Free France (french: France Libre) was a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic. Led by French general , Free France was established as a government-in-exile ...
in the war, before going into analysis with
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 ...
in 1953. He became a training analyst with the newly formed
Société Française de Psychanalyse The Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1953, in a split from the main body of French psychoanalysts, the ''Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse'' (SPP).
The SFP was eventually dissolv ...
, and followed Lacan into the
École Freudienne de Paris
The École freudienne de Paris (EFP) was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1964 by Jacques Lacan.
It became 'a vital—if conflict-ridden—institution until its dissolution in 1980'.
Early history
In 1953 conflict within the P ...
in 1964. However, during the controversy over the passe later in the decade, he would leave to join other influential ex-Lacanians in the APF.
A lover of opera, Rosolato's most distinctive theoretical work concerned the role of the voice in the formation of the body-ego – its role as “acoustic mirror” partway between body and language. He saw the maternal voice as providing, from the womb onwards, what he called a “sonorous envelope” for the developing child - something functioning between, and confounding separation and union, entry and departure.
Rosolato also explored and extended Freud's concept of the dead father, of ''
Totem and Taboo
''Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics'', or ''Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics'', (german: Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenl ...
'', as well as the confusion between the
phallic mother
In psychoanalysis, phallic woman is a concept to describe a woman with the symbolic attributes of the phallus. More generally, it describes any woman possessing traditionally masculine characteristics.
Phallic mother
Freud considered that at th ...
and the primitive father in early childhood thought; and was interested in the interaction of psychoanalysis and cinema (as with the practice of
projective identification Projective identification is a term introduced by Melanie Klein and then widely adopted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Projective identification may be used as a type of defense, a means of communicating, a primitive form of relationship, or a ro ...
onto the screen).
[E. Ann Kaplan, ''Psychoanalysis and Cinema'' (2013) p. 23]
See also
References
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French psychologists
French psychoanalysts
2012 deaths
1924 births