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The Case of Aimée concerned the Frenchwoman Marguerite Pantaine, who in 1931 attacked the celebrity actress Huguette Duflos; was hospitalised; and was treated by, and became the subject of the doctoral thesis of Jacques Lacan.
Thesis
By innovatively linking Aimée's actions to her life experience, Lacan was able to argue that her attack was in fact made against the (persecutory aspect of the) image of he own Ideal ego, carried out in a sort of narcissistic trance. Lacan used her "case" to develop a theory of self-punishing paranoia; in the process moving his thinking closer to that of psychoanalysis.
Later identification
See also
References
- David Macey, Introduction, The Four Fundamental Concpets of Psycho-Analysis (Penguin 1994) p. xvi
- J S Lee, Jacques Lacan (1992) p. 12
- F Pacteau, Symptom of Beauty (2013) p. 193
- Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (Cambridge 2005) p. 44
- J Lacan, Écrits (London 1997) p. 184 and 222
Further Reading
- Jean Allouch, Marguerite; ou, L'Aimée de Lacan (Paris 1990)