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Jacques Lacan & Co. Elisabeth Roudinesco Jacques Lacan & Co. A History o f Psychoanalysis in France, 1925—1985 Translated, with a Foreword, by Jeffrey Mehlman The University of Chicago Press Chicago Elisabeth Roudinesco is the author or coauthor of several previous books on psychoanalysis. Jeffrey Mehlman is professor of French literature at Boston University. A translator of Lacan, he is the author, most recently, of Legacies: Of Anti-Semitism in France. This book was first published in Paris under the title La bataille de cent ans: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, 2. © Editions du Seuil, octobre 1986. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Free Association Books, London © 1990 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1990 Printed in the United States of America 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 5 4 3 2 1 ©The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1944— [Bataille de cent ans. 2. 1925-1985. English] Jacques Lacan 8c Co. : a history of psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 / translated with a foreword by Jeffrey Mehlman. p. cm. Translation of : La bataille de cent ans. 2. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-226-72997-4 1. Psychoanalysis—France—History. 2. Lacan, Jacques, 1901- I. Title. II. Title: Jacques Lacan and Co. BF175.R67813 1990 89-78164 150.19'5'09—dc20 CIP To the memory of Laurence Bataille Concealed in the submission to the rules of a task and the regu larity of objectively imposed exigencies there is a possibility for an eroticization of history—a quickening and quickened passion, I might almost say, love itself. —Michel de Certeau Contents Translator’s Foreword xi Preface to the American Edition xvii Preface to the French Edition xix Acknowledgments xxi part one The New Sensibility 1. Surrealism in the Service of Psychoanalysis 3 I Day and Night 3 II Suicide, Sex, and the Criminal Woman 12 III Andre Breton between Freud and Hegel 21 2. Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Psychology 35 I Pavlovianism and Freudo-Marxism 35 II Georges Politzer and Henri Wallon as Readers of Freud 56 3. Writers, Literati, Dream-Devourers 72 I Verdurin and Guermantes 72 II Love Letters 80 III Andre Gide and La Nouvelle Revue franqaise 84 IV Pierre Jean Jouve and the Ladies’ Chamber 94 4. Jacques Lacan: A Novel of His Youth 101 I From Alfred to Gaetan 101 II Aimee or Rudolph 109 III Christine and Lea 124 IV Henri, Sigmund 129 V Alexandre 134 VI Family Chains 142 part two Cold Wars, Hot Wars 5. The Situation of Psychoanalysis at Midcentury 151 I Chronicle of the Brown Years 151 II From East to West 164 III Two New Masters: Sacha Nacht and Daniel Lagache 205 6. The Great Divide 223 I Disagreements 223 II Rome in September: A Baroque Overture 253 III Maurice Bouvet or French Neo-Freudianism 268 IX X CONTENTS 7. Life and Death of the Societe Franchise de Psychanalyse 277 I Our Finest Years 277 II The Birth of Lacanianism 294 III An Autumn in Bonneval 307 IV The Grand Maneuver 318 V Guerrilla War and “Excommunication” 359 part three Freudian France in Full Array 8. The Ecole Freudienne de Paris: The Reconquest 373 I The New French Intellectual Landscape 373 II Intermezzo 390 III Recourse to Formal Logic 398 IV Jacques Lacan, Himself . . . 407 V Had Versailles Been Told Me 417 VI La Passe: A Reverse Split 443 VII Anonymity and the Fourth Group 461 9. Sunset Boulevard: The Splendors and Miseries of Protest 478 I The Great Decline of Dynamic Psychiatry 478 II Women Problems 506 III Red Front and Years of Embers 526 10. Kingdoms Asunder 547 I Psychoanalysis in the University 547 II The Societe Psychanalytique de Paris or Advanced Bureaucracy 580 III The Association Psychanalytique de France: The Identification of a Group 616 11. The Ecole Freudienne de Paris: The Collapse 633 I Last Song 633 II Dissolution 647 Epilogue 679 A Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: An Inventory 683 Appendixes 701 Abbreviations 713 Notes 715 Index 759
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