Édouard Pichon (; 24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst.
Career A distinguished and innovative grammarian,L. Waugh, Contributions to Grammatical Studies (1979) p. 180 Pichon was analysed by Eugénie Sokolnicka, and became a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society in 1926.L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 98 A member of the royalist and reactionary Action Française, Pichon represented the jingoistic strand of French psychoanalysis,L. Kritzman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507 with his belief in "the genuine culture and the true civilization of our country...this fundamental Frenchness".Quoted in E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 148-9
Through his mixture of linguistic and psychoanalytic thinking, Pichon was a powerful influence on Jacques Lacan (as well as a practical mentor).E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 118 and p. xiii-iv In Écrits, Lacan paid tribute to "a divination that I can attribute only to his practise of semantics...that guided him in people's dark places".J. Lacan, Écrits (1997) p. 108
Among the psychoanalytic concepts introduced by what Élisabeth Roudinesco called Pichon's "fatalist genius",E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan and Co (1990) p. 276 were those of oblatory, scotomization, and foreclosure.
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External links Pichon, Edouard