Edouard Pichon

Edouard Pichon

Edouard Pichon (born June 24, 1890 in Sarcelles , † January 20, 1940 in Paris ) was a French psychoanalyst, Romance scholar and grammarian.

life and work

Jean-Baptiste Edouard Pichon received his doctorate in medicine with the Thèse Le Rhumatisme cardiaque évolutif et son traitement , Paris 1924. He was a founding member and in 1939 president of the French Society for Psychoanalysis and a doctor and psychiatrist by profession. Pichon was the son-in-law of Pierre Janet . Worldview he belonged to the circle around Charles Maurras and to Action Française .

Together with his uncle Jacques Damourette (1873-1943) he began in 1911 at the age of 21 as a linguistic layman, the largest ever written French grammar, which was published by 1956 in seven volumes and an index volume on 4549 pages under the title Des mots à la pensée. Essai de grammaire de la langue française (Paris 1927, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1949, 1952, 1956; 8 vols. Paris 1968-1983) was published. Its value lies in the large number of analyzed examples from all centuries and stylistic levels, including contemporary spoken language, but is diminished by an esoteric terminology newly forged by the authors, which the user must first familiarize himself with.

Other works

• Contes couleur de moi, Paris 1926
• Exposé des titres et travaux scientifiques, Paris 1933
• Temps et idioms. La voie linguistique d'exploration duprobleme psychologique du temps, in: Recherches philosophiques 1935-1936, pp. 196-233
• Le Développement psychique de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, évolution normal, pathology, traitement. Manuel d'étude, Paris 1936, 2nd edition Paris 1947, 3rd edition Paris 1953, 1965
• (together with Suzanne Borel-Maisonny) Le Bégaiement, sa nature et son traitement, Paris 1937, 2nd edition 1964, 3rd edition 1971, 4th edition 1976
• A l'aise dans la civilization. Trois conférences pour l'Institut de psychanalyse de Paris, Paris 1938

literature

• Marcel Mouquin: Edouard Pichon 1890-1940, in: La Presse médicale 31-32, 3-6 avril 1940
• Viggo Brøndal in: Acta Linguistica 2, 1940-1941
• Daniel Moreau, Édouard Pichon, médecin, psychanalyst, linguist. Vie et œuvre. Contribution à l'histoire du mouvement psychanalytique français , Thèse Paris 12, 1979
• Tradition grammaticale et linguistique. L'Essai de grammaire de la langue française de Jacques Damourette et Edouard Pichon, in: Travaux de Linguistique 9-10, 1982-1983
• Sophie Bialek, Edouard Pichon, psychanalyste et grammairien , Thèse Nancy 1985
• Hélène Huot: Jacques Damourette (1873-1943) et Edouard Pichon (1890-1940), Des mots à la penséé. Essai de grammaire de la langue française, in: La grammaire française entre comparatisme et structuralisme, 1870-1960 , ed. by Hélène Huot, Paris 1991, pp. 155-200
• Actualité de Jacques Damourette et Edouard Pichon, ed. by Henri Portine, in: Langages 124, 30, 1996
• De la grammaire à l'inconscient dans les traces de Damourette et Pichon , ed. by Michel Arrivé, Valelia Muni Toke and Claudine Normand, Limoges 2010
• Pichon, Edouard , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 797-799

Web links

• Literature by and about Edouard Pichon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)