Person
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
French psychoanalyst, philosopher and writer. Analysed by Lacan, he left him with Jean Laplanche and others to join the Association Psychanalytique de France, and with Laplanche wrote the Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (1967). He founded the Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse and edited the Gallimard series Connaissance de l'inconscient.
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 2013
- Known for
broke with
- Jacques Lacan 1963 Pontalis left Lacan in the 1963 split of the Société Française de Psychanalyse, together with Laplanche, Anzieu and Widlöcher, and joined the Association Psychanalytique de France.
developed
- Primal fantasy 1964 Pontalis wrote the 1964 essay with Laplanche. It treats Freud's primal fantasies as fantasies of origins and as the structure within which the subject's own fantasy takes place.
- Afterwardsness 1967 As co-author of the Vocabulaire, Pontalis shares in its entry ‘Après-coup’, which first presented Freud's Nachträglichkeit as a concept in its own right.
collaborated with
- Jean Laplanche 1967 Schoolfellows at the Lycée Henri IV, they co-wrote the essay on primal fantasy (1964) and, over eight years of work prompted by Daniel Lagache, the Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (1967).