Édouard Pichon (; 24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst.

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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 The Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP) is the oldest psychoanalytical organisation in France. Founded with Freud’s endorsement in 1926, the S.P.P. is a component member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (I.P.A.) as well as of ...

in 1926. A member of the royalist and reactionary

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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 Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

(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 (; born 10 September 1944) is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure. Roudinesco's work focuses mainly on psychiatry, psycholo ...

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 This term initially was used by Charcot in connection with hysteria. Psychoanalysis R ...

, and

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Pichon, Edouard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pichon, Edouard 1890 births 1940 deaths French psychoanalysts People from Sarcelles 20th-century French psychologists

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