Person
Joan Riviere
British psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, analysed by Ernest Jones and by Freud, who became one of Melanie Klein's closest collaborators. She was Donald Winnicott's second analyst.
Read more- Born
- 1883
- Died
- 1962
- Influenced
analysed
- Donald Winnicott 1936 Winnicott's second analysis (1936–41). Sources differ on when it began, some placing it as late as 1940.
- John Bowlby Riviere was Bowlby's training analyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Institute in the 1930s.
- Susan Isaacs A more formal personal analysis in London, which Isaacs undertook after joining Klein's circle. The sources give different start dates: 1922 in Psychoanalytikerinnen, 1927 in other accounts. She dedicated Social Development in Young Children (1933) to Riviere.
collaborated with
- Melanie Klein 1937 Klein and Riviere gave the two public lectures of 1936 published together as Love, Hate and Reparation (1937): Riviere on hate, greed and aggression, Klein on love, guilt and reparation.
- Susan Isaacs Besides being her analyst, Riviere was Isaacs's co-author in Developments in Psycho-Analysis (1952), which Riviere edited.
disputed with
- John Bowlby 1957 Riviere objected when Bowlby read 'The Nature of the Child's Tie to His Mother' to the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1957, before its publication in 1958.