Alain de Mijolla (15 May 1933,
Paris
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– 24 January 2019, Paris) was a
French psychoanalyst
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and
psychiatrist
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. Mijolla was analyzed by
Conrad Stein and Denise Braunschweig. He became a psychoanalyst in the
Societe psychanalytique de Paris in 1968, and was by 2001 a training analyst there.
He also created and chaired the International Association of History of the Psychoanalysis (AIHP), and received the
Mary S. Sigourney Award in 2004. He died on 24 January 2019, aged 85.
Writings
De Mijolla wrote numerous articles and works; he also edited psychoanalytical collections at several publishers, including the three volumes of the ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''.
In a 1987 paper on identification in the family, he highlighted how
Sigmund Freud
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's creativity can be linked with his identification with the prestige of his grandfather.
His article "Freud and the Psychoanalytic Situation on the Screen" stressed the difficulties of representing the
psychoanalytic
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setting in cinematic terms.
[Janet Bergstrom, ''Endless Night'' (California 1999) p. 6]
See also
*
Maria Torok
References
Further reading
* ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' 3 vols. Edited by
Alain de Mijolla, MacMillan Reference Books.
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1933 births
2019 deaths
French psychoanalysts