Person
Jean-Luc Donnet
French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the Société psychanalytique de Paris, whose work turned on the analytic situation and on how, and how legitimately, analysis brings about its effects. With André Green he wrote L'Enfant de ça (1973), the close study of a single interview in which the two introduced the notion of blank psychosis.
Ideas
- 1973 introduced Blank psychosis
Donnet put forward blank psychosis jointly with André Green in their co-written L'Enfant de ça (1973).
Influence
Affinity
- 1973 collaborated with André Green
Green and Donnet co-wrote L'Enfant de ça (1973), a joint reading of the transcript of a single consultation with a psychotic patient.
Works
- 1973
The Child of the Id: Psychoanalysis of an Interview: Blank Psychosis
A book by Jean-Luc Donnet and André Green built on the transcript of a single interview with a young patient, Z, held during a psychoanalytic consultation in a general psychiatric department while a second analyst listened. Z summed up his origin and his trouble in the claim that his mother had slept with her son-in-law and that he was the child of that union. The authors examine the consultation as a setting, reconstruct the history the interview implies, read it word by word, and propose a key to its enigma, while questioning the interpretation they built after the fact and the unease Z caused his listener. The questions it raises about incest, the real and madness lead to a new concept, blank psychosis: a psychotic core marked not by delusion or hallucination but by blanks and blocking in thought. A closing section introduces the concept, with a sketch of a theory of psychic spaces and of the link between drive and thought. It was published by Éditions de Minuit in 1973.
References
- The Child of the Id: Psychoanalysis of an Interview: Blank Psychosis1973Evidence for a relation