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Piera Aulagnier

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Piera Aulagnier[a] (French: [olaɲe]; née Spairani, Italian: [spaiˈraːni]; November 19, 1923 – March 31, 1990)[1] was an Italian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her contributions to psychoanalysis include the concepts of interpretative violence, pictogram and originary process.

Life and contributions

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Aulagnier was born in Milan in 1923, and trained in medicine at Rome, before finishing psychiatric training in Paris after 1950.[2] She undertook a training analysis with Jacques Lacan from 1955 to 1961,[3] and followed him in 1964 into the newly formed École freudienne de Paris, where she remained for some time a close confidant.[4] In 1969, however, Aulagnier, Jean-Paul Valabrega [fr] and François Perrier split from the EFP over the bitter question of the Pass as a qualification for analyst status, and created the Organisation psychanalytique de langue française [fr] (OPLF), the so-called "Quatrième Groupe" (Fourth Group).[b] The organization played a prominent role in post-Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Aulagnier, founder of the journal L'Inconscient (launched in 1967) and the journal Topique [fr] (launched in 1969), is considered one of the most influential French psychoanalysts of her generation, together with Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis and André Green. Aulagnier created an original, if difficult theory of child psychosis,[5] revolving around the experiences of infant-mother relationships in early childhood, and drawing on and developing the theories of both Winnicott and Lacan. In particular she proposed the concept of the pictogram as an initial link between the body zones and the first mental representations;[6] and continued to work for a theoretical recuperation of the importance of body and feelings as non-verbal presences within early thought.[7]

She also warned against the danger of interpretations being experienced as invasive by an analysand, (particularly when their own omnipotence has been projected onto the analyst).[8]

Aulagnier died in 1990 in Paris.

She was married to businessman André Aulagnier.[3] She later married philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis, and they remained married from 1968 until 1978.[9][3][10]

Selected writings

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  • Piera Castoriadis-Aulagnier. The Violence of Interpretation (2001 [1975]). Brunner-Routledge ISBN 978-0-4152-3676-8.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Also Piera Castoriadis-Aulagnier from 1968 to 1978.
  2. ^ It was called the Fourth Group because it was the fourth major psychoanalytic group to emerge in France, following SPP (founded 1926), EFP (1964–1980; originally known as SFP, 1953–1963), and APF (founded 1964).

Citations

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  1. ^ "TÉMOIGNAGE : la mort de Piera Aulagnier Une psychanalyste exigeante". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1990-04-07. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  2. ^ Piera Aulagnier
  3. ^ a b c Biography of Piera Aulagnier at Psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  4. ^ É. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) pp. 293 and 318
  5. ^ Piera Aulagnier
  6. ^ C. Trevarthen, Children with Autism (1998) p. 205
  7. ^ P. Miller, Driving Soma (2014) pp. 118–121
  8. ^ P. Fonagy, Psychoanalysis on the Move (1999) p. 167
  9. ^ François Dosse. Castoriadis. Une vie. La Découverte, 2014, pp. 175–200 and 259–290.
  10. ^ "Piera AULAGNIER - Membres et Participants". www.quatrieme-groupe.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.

References

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  • Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor (1998). Penser la psychose. Une lecture de l'oeuvre de Piera Aulagnier. Dunod.
  • Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor (2005). "Aulagnier-Spairani, Piera." In: A. de Mijolla (ed.), International dictionary of psychoanalysis, vol. 1 (pp. 129–30). Thomson Gale.
  • Hélène Troisier (1998). Piera Aulagnier. Presses Universitaires de France.
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