Jean-Bertrand Pontalis

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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (born January 15, 1924 in Paris ; † January 15, 2013 there ) was a French philosopher , psychoanalyst and writer .

biography

Pontalis attended the Pasteur and Henri IV high schools in Paris and completed a degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne , which he completed in 1945 with a thesis on Spinoza . In the post-war years he joined the political left around Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and worked on their magazine Les Temps Modernes . He taught philosophy at high schools in Alexandria (1948–49), Nice (1949–51) and Orléans (1951–52), after which, thanks to Merleau-Ponty's support, he became an employee of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

At the same time he began a training analysis with Jacques Lacan , for whose seminars from 1956 to 1959 (Séminaires IV-VI) he published the first abstracts. Around 1960 he began working with Jean Laplanche on the book Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse , which was published in 1967. It was a great success and translated into numerous languages.

In 1964 he separated himself from Lacan by founding the Association Psychanalytique de France with a few others . In the same year he became a member of the editorial committee of Les Temps Modernes and began teaching at the École pratique des hautes études .

In 1970 he founded the journal Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse , whose editor he remained until 1994, when it was discontinued after 50 issues. The editorial committee included Didier Anzieu , André Green , Guy Rosolato and Jean Starobinski , and later Laurence Kahn.

In 1979 he joined the editorial committee of the Gallimard publishing house , and the following year he began to publish literary works himself.

Works

as an author
  • Après Freud . Gallimard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-07-072843-9 (EA Paris 1965)
    • German: After Freud . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-07708-2 (EA Frankfurt am Main 1965)
  • with Jean Laplanche : Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse. 5th edition. PUF, Paris 2009 (EA Paris 1967)
    • German: The vocabulary of psychoanalysis. 18th edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-27607-5 (EA Frankfurt am Main 1973)
  • L'amour des commencements . Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-038854-9 (EA Paris 1986)
    • German: In love with the beginning . Edition diskord, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-89295-534-4 (EA Tübingen 1986)
  • with Jean Laplanche: Fantasme originaire. Fantasmes des origines, origines du fantasme . Hachette, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-01-278945-5 (EA Paris 1985)
  • La force d'attraction . Éditions du Sud, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-02-012428-9 .
  • Entre le rêve et la doleur . Paris 1977.
    • German: Between dream and pain (= library of psychoanalysis). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-239-2 (unchanged reprint of the German EA, translation slightly shortened).
  • Hans-Dieter Gondek, Peter Widmer (Ed.): Summary rendering of the seminars IV-VI by Jacques Lacan. 2nd Edition. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85132-491-4 (EA Vienna 1999, translated by Johanna Drobnig)
as editor
  • Objets du fétichisme (= Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse. Volume 2). Gallimard, Paris 1970.

literature

  • Theresia Erich: Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. In: Gerhard Stumm , Alfred Pritz et al. (Hrsg.): Personal dictionary of psychotherapy . Springer, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-83818-X , p. 379 f.
  • Claude Janin: J.-B. Pontalis (= Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. Volume 12). PUF, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-13-048575-8 .
  • François Duparc (ed.): Fenêtres sur l'inconscient. L'œuvre de J.-B. Pontalis (= Textes de base en psychanalyse). Delachaux & Niestlé, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-603-01249-5 .
  • Jean-Michel Delacomptée, François Gantheret (ed.): Le Royaume intermédiaire, psychanalyse, littérature, autour de Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (= Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 10-17 September 2006). Gallimard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-07-034775-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco: Le psychanalyste Jean-Bertrand Pontalis est mort. In: Le Monde . January 16, 2013, accessed January 16, 2013 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher, psychoanalyst and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2013
Place of death Paris