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Gérard Pommier, 81, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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|Gérard Pommier (17 August 1941 – 1 August 2023) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a professor at Paris Diderot University and directed the journal La Clinique Lacanienne.
Biography
Born on 17 August 1941, Pommier interned at a psychiatric hospital and earned his license in 1991. In 2000, he defended his doctoral thesis, titled L'écriture comme solution dans la psychose, under the direction of Roland Gori [fr] at the University of Provence. In 2003, he defended his thesis for his habilitation, titled Comment les neurosciences démontrent la psychanalyse.
Pommier met Jacques Lacan during seminars at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center, with whom he carried out psychoanalytic supervisions. He also carried out such studies with Piera Aulagnier and Françoise Dolto. He was a member of the Espace analytique [fr] and was a co-founder of the Fondation européenne pour la psychanalyse. He directed the journal La Clinique Lacanienne and was a member of the lecture committee of Cliniques méditerranéennes.
Gérard Pommier died on 1 August 2023, at the age of 81.
Publications
- D'une logique de la psychose (1983)
- L'Exception féminine, essai sur les impasses de la jouissance (1985)
- Le Dénouement d'une analyse (1986)
- L'Ordre sexuel (1989)
- La Névrose infantile de la psychanalyse (1989)
- Libido illimited. Freud apolitique ? (1990)
- Le Dénouement d'une analyse (1993)
- Naissance et renaissance de l'écriture (1993)
- Du bon usage érotique de la colère, et quelques-unes de ses conséquences (1994)
- L'Amour à l'envers. Essai sur le transfert (1995)
- Ceci n'est pas un Pape... Inconscient et culture en Louisiane (1996)
- Louis du Néant. La mélancolie d'Althusser (1998)
- Les Corps angéliques de la postmodernité (2000)
- Comment les neurosciences démontrent la psychanalyse (2004)
- Qu’est-ce que le réel ? Essai psychanalytique (2004)
- Que veut dire « faire l’amour » ? (2010)
- Pour en finir avec le carcan du DSM (2011)
- Le Refoulement. Pourquoi et comment ? (2013)
- Le Nom propre. Fonctions logiques et inconscientes (2013)
- Féminin, révolution sans fin (2016)
- Occupons le Rond-point Marx et Freud (2019)
- Don Juan repenti Repenti. DeMETOOflé, pardonné Livret pour l'opéra de Jacopo Baboni Schilingi (2021)
- Si le Virus nous parlait ? Et si Freud lui répondait ? (2022)
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