PSYCHANALYSE, LA

The Société française de psychanalyse (SFP, French Psychoanalytic Society), was founded on June 18, 1953, following the resignation of Françoise Dolto, Juliette Favez-Boutonier, Jacques Lacan, Daniel Lagache, and Blanche Reverchon-Jouve from the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP, Paris Psychoanalytic Society). The new group did not found a journal, but rather published a series of eight "notebooks" that came out according to no fixed schedule under the title of La Psychanalyse. The subtitle was Freudian Research and Teaching of the Société Française de Psychanalyse. The titles of the series, all published by Presses Universitaire de France, are as follows:

1. On Speech and Language (1956)
2. Clinical Miscellany (1956)
3. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (1958)
4. The Psychoses (1958)
5. Critical Essays (1959)
6. Structural Perspectives (1961)
7. Feminine Sexuality (1964)
8. Fantasy, Dream, Reality (1964)

The first volume contained Lacan's "Rome Report" from the new society's first congress in September 1953, as well as all the presentations made at that conference. Volume VI, "Structural Perspectives," published the acts of the international congress held at Royaumont in 1959. It included Daniel Lagache's paper "Psychoanalysis and Personality Structure," followed by Jacques Lacan's "Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation: 'Psychoanalysis and Personality Structure."' It also included Lacan's "The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power" and Dolto's "Personology and Body Image." Volume VII included the proceedings of an international conference on feminine sexuality held in Amsterdam in 1960. It included "Guiding Remarks for a Conference on Feminine Sexuality," by Lacan, and papers by Dolto on "The Destiny of Feminine Genital Libido" and by Wladimir Granoff and François Perrier on "Feminine Ideas and the Problem of Perversion in Women." This volume also included numerous papers and translations of texts, such as Ernest Jones's "Early Female Sexuality" and Joan Rivière's "Womanliness as Masquerade."

The members of the S.F.P. disbanded in 1963 and announced the group's dissolution in 1964, shortly after the publication of the last volume of La Psychanalyse. The volumes were published without an editorial committee. Among the numerous French authors whose works were included were Piera Aulagnier, Serge Leclaire, Maud Mannoni, Octave Mannoni, Gisela Pankow, Guy Rosolato, Mustapha Safouan, Daniel Widlöcher. Foreign authors published in La Psychanalyse included Michael Balint, Martin Grotjahn, Susan Isaacs, Jacques Schotte, and Alphonse de Waelhens.

Jacques SÉdat

See also: France; Société française de psychanalyse.