Gérard Mendel (1930 – 14 October 2004) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.

The revolt against the father

His popularity began when he published his 1968 work ''La révolte contre le père'' (The revolt against the father).

Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

and Guattari assessed this book as one example of the "drivel on Oedipus".Deleuze, Guattari (1972) ''

Anti-Œdipus ''Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'' (french: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the former a philosopher and the latter a psychoanalyst. It is the first vol ...

'', section 2.6 ''A recapitulation of the three syntheses'' p.116, 118-9 Mendel argued that the father "died over a period of thousands of years" and that the "internalization" corresponding to the paternal image was produced during the Paleolithic right up until the start of the Neolithic, "approximately 8,000 years ago". Deleuze and Guattari mention this work as an example of the cop-like tone of the psychoanalysts that want to impose the Oedipus model upon everyone; psychoanalysts like Mendel consider those "who do not bow to the imperialism of Oedipus as dangerous deviants, leftists who ought to be handed over to social and police repression." He's mentioned in Deleuze and Guattari's ''

'' as the example of the prominence of a fascist tone among the most respected psychoanalysis associations.Deleuze, Guattari (1972) ''

'', section 2.4 ''The disjunctive synthesis of recording'' p.89

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendel, Gerard French psychologists French psychoanalysts 2004 deaths 1930 births 20th-century psychologists