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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis

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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis

Aliases: Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1924-01-15 (Paris)
Died
2013-01-15 (Paris) age 89
Nationality
フランス
Languages
フランス語
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
philosopher, writer, editor, psychoanalyst
Active Years
1940-2013
Affiliations
Association Psychanalytique de France
Memberships
Association Psychanalytique de France
Influenced By
Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Language of Psychoanalysis

1967 Psychoanalysis

Influential work co-authored with Jean Laplanche on the language of psychoanalysis.

psychoanalysis

Windows

Literature

One of his later literary writings.

Crossing the Shadows

Literature

One of his later literary writings.

Love of Beginnings

1993 Autobiography

1993 autobiography, deliberately ahistorical, emphasizing 'holes' in discourse.

beginningsholes in discourse

Style & Themes

Literary Style
ahistorical narrativeexploiting gaps in discourse
Recurring Motifs
beginningsshadows

Legacy

Renowned French psychoanalyst and philosopher who co-founded the Association Psychanalytique de France.

Quotes

  • When words fail, it is because, without realising it, one is about to touch a different earth.
    Source: Parrots and Nightingales (2013)

Trivia

  • Student of Jean-Paul Sartre.
  • Underwent analysis with Jacques Lacan but did not follow him to the École Freudienne de Paris.