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.
- 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.