Journal Article

LE PSYCHIATRE, L’INFIRMIER, LE FOU ET LA PSYCHANALYSE. POUR UNE HISTOIRE POPULAIRE DE LA PSYCHANALYSE 2

GABARRON-GARCIA, Florent

2016

Overview

In opposition to the revisionism characterizing contemporary psychoanalysis, this article pursues our investigation aimed at foregrounding the constituent elements of a popular history of psychoanalysis. In the aftermath of the 1939-45 war, there emerged, throughout Europe, a series of enterprises which sought to reappraise the issue of madness, with the result that a host of new practical approaches saw the day. These were, to begin with, the initiatives of psychiatrists, who in many cases were psychoanalysts. Having been active in the resistance, and drawing on their experience as political activists, sometimes as Marxists, they continued their struggle in the immediate aftermath of the war, explicitly formulating as their goal the destruction of the alienating structures of the psychiatric hospital. Our intention is thus to focus on the French psychiatrico-psychanalytical context of the 1950s, in the period prior to the contribution of Félix Guattari from the beginning of the 1960s and the seminal perspectives he opened up, through which to rethink a revolutionary praxis.

• Publisher: Humensis
• Subject: DoSSiER: PSYCHANALYSE, L’autre MATÉRIALISME