René Laforgue

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René Laforgue

René Laforgue (born November 5, 1894 in Thann , Alsace , German Reich ; † March 6, 1962 in Paris ) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . He is one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in France.

Life

Laforgue's father was a poor engraver who worked in a textile factory; his mother comes from a poor family with many children.

“Little René was a rebel; he is brought up hard for what is inappropriate for him; he is robbed of his toys and clothes in favor of his younger brothers; his intelligence frightens those around him and his father gets in the way of his intellectual plans. His school years are eventful. He was quickly sent to a boarding school that was notorious for his educational methods . He runs away and is sent to another boarding school. Lying in constant struggle with his parents, he went to Berlin to see Franz Oppenheimer, a respected physiologist who quickly became his adoptive father. The persecuted Alsatian found refuge in a Jewish family who made contemporary art and modern science accessible to him. "

Laforgue starts studying medicine in Berlin . “In 1914 Laforgue was drafted into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front as a junior doctor. He discovers the horror of war, fear, death, the reality of illness, dirt and epidemics. He is wounded, narrowly escapes typhus and returns to Berlin to study his beloved studies. Alsace is now French again and Laforgue is going to be an assistant doctor at a psychiatric hospital in Strasbourg. ”He has the ability to deal with schizophrenic patients and is successful in healing cases that have long since been abandoned. He received his doctorate in 1919 with a thesis on the affectivity of schizophrenics and then worked at the Saint-Anne psychiatric clinic in Paris.

"In 1921 Freud sent Sokolnicka to Paris as his legitimate representative." Laforgue completed his training analysis with her. He corresponds with Freud and, with René Allendy and Édouard Pichon , founds the first medical Freudian circles in Paris. In 1926 he was one of the founders of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris .

Before the Second World War, Laforgue is the most famous analyst in Paris and also the analyst of Françoise Dolto . He stubbornly advocates the spread of psychoanalysis, which in France only took place against great resistance and late.

Laforgue's attitude during the occupation is controversial, especially because of his collaboration with Matthias Heinrich Göring . After the liberation, Laforgue is brought to justice; the process is discontinued.

After the war, Laforgue went to Morocco and later returned to France.

Fonts

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau. A psychoanalytic study. In: Imago. Vol. 16, Issue 2, 1930, ISSN  0536-5554 , pp. 145-172, (special print: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Vienna 1930), online .
  • L'Échec de Baudelaire. Étude psychanalytique sur la névrose de Charles Baudelaire. Édition Denoel et Steele, Paris Paris 1931.
  • Libido, fear and civilization: psychoanalytic studies , Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1932
  • Psychopathology de l'échec. Cahiers du Sud, Marseille 1942.
  • Talleyrand. L'homme de la France. Essai psychanalytique sur la personnalite collective française (= Action et pensée. Vol. 24, ZDB -ID 977201-7 ). Éditions du Mont-Blanc, Geneva 1947.

Newer editions

  • Clinique psychanalytique. Conférences faites à l'Institut de psychanalyse de Paris, 1934, 1935, 1936. Nouvelle édition. Bibliothèque des Introuvables et al., Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84575-221-0 .
  • Psychopathology de l'échec (= Collection les oeuvres du Dr René Laforgue. ). Guy Trédaniel, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-85707-603-7 .
  • with Angelo Hesnard : Aperçu de l'historique du mouvement psychanalytique en France (1925). In: l'Evolution psychiatrique. Vol. 72, No. 4, 2007, ISSN  0014-3855 , pp. 571-580
  • with Angelo Hesnard: A propos de l'aperçu de l'historique du mouvement psychanalytique en France (1927). In: l'Evolution psychiatrique. Vol. 72, No. 4, 2007, pp. 581-583.

literature

  • Elisabeth Roudinesco: Vienna-Paris. The history of psychoanalysis in France , Volume 1, Weinheim and Berlin: Beltz, 1994, especially 248ff.
  • Laforgue, Rene , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 599–602

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roudinesco 1994: 249
  2. ^ Roudinesco 1994: 250
  3. ↑ Roudinisco 1994: 246
personal data
SURNAME Laforgue, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Thann
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1962
Place of death Paris