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Where have all the pithiatics gone? Robert Boncardo and Christian R. Gelder on Lacan and French psychiatry

Robert Boncardo, Christian R. Gelder

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Abstract

Reviewing Jacques Lacan’s early writings, Robert Boncardo and Christian R. Gelder pull back the curtain on French psychiatry in the early twentieth century – a medical milieu that would prove pivotal for Lacan’s understanding of psychosis.
Original languageEnglish
JournalSydney Review of Books
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2025

Keywords

  • psychoanalysis
  • history of psychiatry
  • Jacques Lacan

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