Francis Hofstein

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Francis Hofstein (born October 9, 1937 ) is a French psychoanalyst who was also active as a blues and jazz author .

Hofstein earned a doctorate in medicine and attended the music conservatory. First a Freud follower, then a student of Lacan , he was a co-founder of the Fédération des ateliers de psychanalyse and the magazine L'Ordinaire du psychanalyste (1973–1978). From 1980 to 1997 he practiced at the Hôpital Henri Rousselle à Sainte Anne.

Hofstein was also an amateur drummer and wrote a number of articles for Jazz Magazine (such as BB King Parle ), Soul Bag and the Revue d'Esthétique . Hofstein founded the annual magazine L'art du jazz and published a number of books on blues and jazz, such as Au Miroir du Jazz, Oakland Blues, James Pichette et le Jazz, Jazz-Suite pour Sacha, Blue Moon and a biography Muddy Waters . He also wrote the blues section for the Dictionnaire du jazz and contributions to the Dictionnaire du Blues . For his book Le Rhythm and Blues (1991) Hofstein received the Prix ​​Langston Hughes of the Académie du Jazz in 1992 . Hofstein lives in Paris.

Publications

  • Au miroir you jazz . Paris: Éditions de la Pierre, 1985
  • Oakland blues . photographies de Michelle Vignes, Paris: Marval, 1990
  • Le rhythm and blues . Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, ( Que sais-je? Series ), 1991
  • Francis Hofstein & Sacha Chimkevitch (Ill.): Jazz - suite pour Sacha . Peris: Ed. Fragments, 1995
  • Blue moon . Paris, Cahier d'Art Actuel, 1996
  • Muddy Waters . Arles: Actes Sud, 1996
  • Le Poison de la dépendence , Paris, Ed. de Seuil, 2000
  • L'Art du Jazz . Paris: Éditions du Félin, 2009, ISBN 978-2-86645-712-9 .
  • Jean Coulot : Jazz me blues , préface de Lydia Harambourg, textes de Jean-Louis Ferrier, Claude-Michel Cluny, Jean Lescure, Jacques Chessex, Francis Hofstein et Daniel Huguenin, Paris, Éditions Altamira, 2004.
  • Le Jeu incessant de Daniel Humair . textes de Jacques Bouzerand, Gilles de Montauzon, Michel Bohbot, Catherine Beloeil, Francis Hofstein, ISBN 978-2-7521-0096-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory
  2. ↑ Information at Decitre
  3. ↑ Brief portrait at babelio
  4. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco: Jacques Lacan & Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925–1985 . 1990, p. 468
  5. ↑ In: Jazz Magazine [France], no. 151 (Feb 1968): pp. 19-20
  6. ↑ For example Un double passion . In: Revue d'Ethetique 1991, p, 57–61 La raprèsentation du jazz , Revue d'esthétique, 19/91, pp. 79-86.
  7. ^ In the publishing house Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis
  8. ^ Palmarés of the Acedémie du Jazz 1992
  9. ^ Franic Hofstein: L'amour du corps. 2005, p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Hofstein, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz author and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1937