Development of Psychoanalytic Thought & Theory

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA
Melissa Stoker, MS

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January 15, 2021 — Psychoanalysis in France

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At Freud’s request, Rudolph Lowenstein moved to France in 1925 to help establish a training institute there.  He worked with colleagues such as Marie Bonaparte, another important figure in the early years, and was the training analyst of Jacques Lacan.  In 1940 Lowenstein, a Jew, fled to southern France and then to the US in 1942, where he became a leading figure in ego psychology.

After a dormancy during World War II, psychoanalysis again flourished in France, and saw the rise and spread of Lacanian theory, which we will read about here.  While Lacan doesn’t represent all of French psychoanalysis, he is possibly one of the most widely known, if less well understood, figures.

Kennedy, R. (1987). Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalyst and Thinker. Brit. J. Psychother., 3(4):350-358.

Optional Reading

Aguayo, J. (1986). Charcot and Freud. Psychoanal. Contemp. Thought, 9(2):223-260.

Gazzola, L. (2005). Did Jacques Lacan Say Anything New? J. Am. Acad. Psychoanal. Dyn. Psychiatr., 33(2):323-332.

Glassgold, E. (2014). When Freud Was New Again: The Pleasure of Reading French Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Q., 83(1):151-167.

Sechaud, E. (2008). The Handling of the Transference in French Psychoanalysis. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 89(5):1011-1028.

Luepnitz, D.A. (2009). Thinking in the Space between Winnicott and Lacan. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 90(5):957-981.