Édouard Pichon | |
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| Born | (1890-06-24)24 June 1890 Sarcelles, France |
| Died | 20 January 1940(1940-01-20) (aged 49) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
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| Fields | Pediatrics,Linguistics,Psychoanalysis |
Édouard Pichon (24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst. He was born inSarcelles and died inParis.
A distinguished and innovative grammarian,[1] Pichon was analysed byEugénie Sokolnicka, and became a founding member of theParis Psychoanalytic Society in 1926.[2] A member of the royalist and reactionaryAction 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 onJacques Lacan (as well as a practical mentor).[5] InÉcrits, 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 whatÉlisabeth Roudinesco called Pichon's "fatalist genius",[7] were those of oblatory,scotomization, andforeclosure.
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