Maurice Dayan (25 January 1935 – 2 May 2020) was a French psychoanalyst and university professor.

Biography

Dayan was the son of a postman. At the age of 14, he bought books by

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, and

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. He attended Lycée Turgot in

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, and won 1st prize in philosophy at the

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in 1953. He was admitted into the

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, earning his

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in philosophy in 1959. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from

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with a thesis titled ''Inconscient et Réalité''. He taught psychology at the

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, then at

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. Dayan then served as a professor of psychopathology at

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, then at Paris Diderot University, where he taught alongside

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, François Gantheret, and Pierre Fédida. From 1995 to 2000, he directed the Laboratoire de psychanalyse et de psychopathologie, which was created by Laplanche in 1970. Dayan was from the very beginning a member of the

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of the journal ''Psychanalyse à l'université'' (1975—1994), in which he published several articles. Maurice Dayan died on 2 May 2020 at the age of 85 at

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Publications

*"Représentation, délire, histoire" in ''Psychanalyse à l'université'' (1975) *"Freud en Cacanie: de quelques prémisses historiques de la psychanalyse" in ''Psychanalyse à l'université'' (1977) *''L'Arbre des styles'' (1980) *"Le fantasme et l'événement" in ''Psychanalyse à l'université'' (1985) *''Inconscient et réalité'' (1985) *''Les Relations au réel dans la psychose : critique de l'héritage freudien'' (1985) *''Un interprète en quête de sens'' (1986) *''Trauma et devenir psychique'' (1995) *''Le Rêve nous pense-t-il'' (2004) *''Dire et devenir : une exploration des effets du langage dans la temporalité de l'analyse'' (2014) *"Le rêve nous pense-t-il ? Reprise d’une interrogation" in ''Le Coq-Héron'' (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dayan, Maurice 1935 births 2020 deaths French psychoanalysts Academic staff of Paris Descartes University Paris Diderot University alumni