Angelo Louis Marie Hesnard (or
Angel Marie Louis Hesnard; 22 May 1886,
Pontivy – 17 April 1969, Rochefort) was a French born
psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, and was an important figure in 1930s French
sexology.
Life and career
Coming from an impoverished background, Hesnard educated himself through the French navy; and it was a naval doctor that he co-authored the first book on
Freud in French in 1914.
[T. Zeldin, A History of French Taste (1993) p. 869] Despite never being analysed, Hesnard was a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, the first French psychoanalytics institution.
[Sylvie Chaperon "Kinsey en France : les sexualités féminine et masculine en débat, Le Mouvement Social" 1/2002 (No. 198), p. 91-110. see also: Alain Giami and Patrick Colomby "Profession sexologue?", "Sociétés contemporaines" 1/2001 (No. 41-42), pp. 41–63.] Loyal to
Vichy France in the war, Hesnard continued to serve in the navy, and was in French North Africa when he wrote his notorious article of 'The Jewishness of Sigmund Freud'/
[E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 153]
In the fifties he debated with Jacques Lacan over the meaning of Freud's saying "Where It was, shall I be"; but when debarred by the IPA from the roster of training analysts as a representative of the chauvinist wing of French psychoanalysis, he followed Lacan into the École Freudienne de Paris in 1964[E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 266 and p. 258]
Works
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L'univers morbide de la faute, 1949
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Psychanalyse du lien interhumain, 1957
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L'oeuvre de Freud et son importance pour le monde moderne 1960
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Psychologie du crime, 1963
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De Freud à Lacan, 1970
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Works by Angelo Hesnardorganize | filterStrange Lust : The Psychology of Homosexuality, La psicoanalisi da Freud a Lacan, Psychologie homosexuell
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