Élisabeth Roudinesco
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Élisabeth Roudinesco in 2007
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| Born |
10 September 1944 (age 72) Paris, France |
| Residence | Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Historian & Psychoanalyst |
| Institutions | University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot & École normale supérieure |
| Influences | Georges Canguilhem ; Michel Foucault ; Michel de Certeau ; Henri Ellenberger ; Jacques Lacan |
| Notable awards | Prix Decembre 2014 & Prix des Prix 2014 for Freud, In His Time and Ours, Cambridge, H.U.P., 2016 and Prix de la Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine for Généalogies, Paris, Fayard, 1996 |
Élisabeth Roudinesco (Romanian: Rudinescu; born 10 September 1944) is a French academic historian and psychoanalyst, Head of research of the University of Paris Diderot - Paris VII. Biographer of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud, she mainly worked on the situation of psychoanalysis worldwide but also published on the history of French Revolution, perverts and perversion, philosophy and judaism. She has been awarded The Prix Décembre 2014 and The Prix des Prix 2014 for her biography of Freud, In his time and Ours translated at Harvard University Press. She is translated into thirty languages.
Born to half-Jewish parents in newly liberated Paris in September 1944, and grew up there. She is the daughter of Jenny Aubry (Born Weiss – coming from a Judeo-Protestant bourgeoisie, was a renowned psychoanalyst and hospital neuro-paediatrician who spent her whole life looking after suffering children: abandoned, ill and in difficulty. She was an anglophile who, in the 1950s, introduced to France John Bowlby's theories on the importance of maternal care, and she worked in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic in London. She was a friend of Jacques Lacan - and whose sister was the feminist Louise Weiss) of the Javal family and physician Alexandre Roudinesco, of Romanian origin, who had "a passion for history and a phenomenal library". He was born in Bucharest in a Jewish and francophile milieu, and his father had been an editor.
She received her secondary education in Paris at Collège Sévigné. She studied Literature at the Sorbonne, with a minor in Linguistics; her master's degree was supervised by Tzvetan Todorov, and her doctoral thesis, entitled Inscription du désir et roman du sujet, by Jean Levaillant at the Université Paris VIII-Vincennes in 1975.
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