Édouard Pichon

Édouard Pichon (24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst. He was born in Sarcelles and died in Paris.

Édouard Pichon
Born(1890-06-24)June 24, 1890
Sarcelles
DiedJanuary 20, 1940(1940-01-20) (aged 49)
Paris
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
FieldsPediatrics, Linguistics, Psychoanalysis

Career

A distinguished and innovative grammarian,[1] Pichon was analysed by Eugénie Sokolnicka, and became a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society in 1926.[2] A member of the royalist and reactionary Action Française, Pichon represented the jingoistic strand of French psychoanalysis,[3] with his belief in “the genuine culture and the true civilization of our country...this fundamental Frenchness”.[4]

Through his mixture of linguistic and psychoanalytic thinking, Pichon was a powerful influence on Jacques Lacan (as well as a practical mentor).[5] 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”.[6]

Among the psychoanalytic concepts introduced by what Élisabeth Roudinesco called Pichon's “fatalist genius”,[7] were those of oblatory, scotomization, and foreclosure.

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gollark: Idea: brute force longer sequences like that.
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See also

References
  1. L. Waugh, Contributions to Grammatical Studies (1979) p. 180
  2. L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 98
  3. L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507
  4. Quoted in E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 148-9
  5. E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 118 and p. xiii-iv
  6. J. Lacan, Écrits (1997) p. 108
  7. E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 276

Pichon, Edouard

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