Revue française de psychanalyse - Tome VII, N... Lot n° 9030

[Review - Psychoanalysis - French Theory] This internationally renowned journal was "published under the high patronage of Professor Sigmund Freud". It marks the beginnings of French psychoanalysis with the active participation of Marie Bonaparte and Jacques Lacan. "The various splits in the psychoanalytical societies often led to the creation of new groups of psychoanalysts and new journals. These reviews were the place of more or less virulent exchanges, sometimes at the origin of new splits. Drawing on Winnicott's work on child development, Bayard sees the psychoanalytic journals as a "transitional space". According to him, it is "within this illusory space of understanding that group thinking evolves" (P. Bayard, 1994). It is therefore easy to understand why historians are interested in journals. The study of a journal is not only the study of its content. Indeed, it is above all the updating of its institutional functioning that will make it possible to account for the intellectual and strategic stakes that prevailed among its actors. The Revue française de psychanalyse (RFP) is the organ of the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP). But, behind the scenes, the RFP is also the journal of a princess. Marie Bonaparte was never editor-in-chief, but she often acted as if she were. The Princess of Greece is not generally presented as a woman of power with a political vision for French psychoanalysis. We prefer to dwell on her astonishing theories and her no less disturbing intimacy. This work proposes to follow the life of the RFP through the prism of the correspondence between Marie Bonaparte and her secretary, Anne Berman. Through these exchanges, we gain access to a complex history centred on interpersonal relations within the French group. Underlying this story is the project that Marie Bonaparte defended throughout her career as a psychoanalyst. This copy thus becomes a place of intense debates and of re-evaluation of numerous clinical and metapsychological questions. The great contemporary psychoanalytic themes are, in fact, put to work, classic Freudian data are confronted with post-Freudian contributions within and outside the field of psychoanalysis. Information: Sigmund FREUD, René LAFORGUE, Marie BONAPARTE Official organ of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society Revue française de psychanalyse - Tome VII, N°2, 1934. Paperback, 392 pages. First edition. First cover detached. Lacking on the spine. Used condition.