Piera Aulagnier

Piera Aulagnier (French: [olaɲe]; née Spairani; November 19, 1923 – March 31, 1990), was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her contributions to psychoanalysis include the concepts of interpretative violence, pictogram and originary process.

Life and contributions

Aulagnier was born in Milan in 1923, and trained in medicine at Rome, before finishing psychiatric training in Paris after 1950.[1] She undertook a training analysis with Jacques Lacan from 1955 to 1961,[2] and followed him in 1964 into the newly formed École freudienne de Paris, where she remained for some time a close confidant.[3] In 1969, however, Aulagnier, Jean-Paul Valabrega and François Perrier split from the EFP over the bitter question of the passe as a qualification for analyst status, and created the Organisation psychanalytique de langue française. The organization played a prominent role in post-Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Aulagnier, a founding member of the journal Tropique, is considered one of the most influential French psychoanalysts of her generation, together with Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis and André Green. Aulagnier created an original, if difficult theory of child psychosis,[4] revolving around the experiences of infant-mother relationships in early childhood, and drawing on and developing the theories of both Winnicott and Lacan. In particular she proposed the concept of the pictogram as an initial link between the body zones and the first mental representations;[5] and continued to work for a theoretical recuperation of the importance of body and feelings as non-verbal presences within early thought.[6]

She also warned against the danger of interpretations being experienced as invasive by an analysand, (particularly when their own omnipotence has been projected onto the analyst).[7]

Aulagnier died in 1990 in Paris. She was married to Cornelius Castoriadis from 1968 until 1984.

gollark: My chance of death is still pretty low, but if I cared much I would probably try and set up a convoluted scheme of some kind where people can get access to some amount of my stuff given m of n cryptographic keys in different places.
gollark: We already *have* magic ultra-secure communications available using regular cryptography, it's basically always either poor implementation/use of those or flaws elsewhere which cause security issues.
gollark: So yes, definitely overhype-y and inaccurate.
gollark: You can't send information faster than light with quantum entanglement (or quite possibly at all), and systems which can use magic ultra-secure communications channels will not magically be immune to hacking.
gollark: Apparently lockpicks are pretty cheap and most locks are terrible and quite vulnerable to them. Which is worrying.

See also

Selected writings
  • Piera Aulagnier. The Violence of Interpretation (1975). The New Library of Psychoanalysis. Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0-415-23676-2

Notes
  1. Piera Aulagnier
  2. Biography at Psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  3. E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 293 and 318
  4. Piera Aulagnier
  5. C. Trevarthen, Children with Autism (1998) p. 205
  6. P. Miller, Driving Soma (2014) p. 118-121
  7. P. Fonagy, Psychoanalysis on the Move (1999) p. 167

References
  • Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor (2005). "Aulagnier-Spairani, Piera." In: A. de Mijolla (Ed.), International dictionary of psychoanalysis, vol. 1 (pp. 129–30). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.


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