Alain de Mijolla (15 May 1933, in Paris – 24 January 2019) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Mijolla was analyzed by Conrad Stein and Denise Braunschweig. He became a psychoanalyst in the Societe psychanalytique de Paris in 1968, and was by 2001 a training analyst there.
He also created and chaired the International Association of History of the Psychoanalysis (AIHP), and received the Mary S. Sigourney Award in 2004. He died on 24 January 2019, aged 85.
Writings
De Mijolla wrote numerous articles and works; he also edited psychoanalytical collections at several publishers, including the three volumes of the International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.
In a 1987 paper on identification in the family, he highlighted how Sigmund Freud's creativity can be linked with his identification with the prestige of his grandfather.
His article "Freud and the Psychoanalytic Situation on the Screen" stressed the difficulties of representing the psychoanalytic setting in cinematic terms.
See also
References
- R. Steiner, Within and Beyond Time (2001) p. xiii
- "International Association of History of the Psychoanalysis". Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- site des Sigourney Award
- "Décès du docteur Alain de Mijolla (1933-2019)". Société Psychanalytique de Paris (in French). 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2009) p. 314
- L. J. Kalinich/S. W. Taylor, The Dead Father (2008) p. 111
- Janet Bergstrom, Endless Night (California 1999) p. 6
Further reading
- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis 3 vol.. Edited by Alain de Mijolla, MacMillan Reference Books, . ISBN 0-02-865924-4