Interview with Professor PaulLaurent Assoun.

The Psychoanalytical Anthropology

Abstract

This interview took place in France, at Denis Diderot University - Paris 7
(nowadays Université de Paris), on June 22nd, 2019. Its transcription in French and its
translation into Spanish were made by Bruno Carignano. The criterion was to maintain
as much as possible of the oral transmission style. During the course of the interview,
Paul-Laurent Assoun addresses various subjects related to the university discipline that
he has introduced under the name of Psychoanalytical Anthropology: his particular connection
to Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis; research in psychoanalysis and the
University in contemporary France; the specificity of psychoanalytical clinic and social
phenomena; the relations of the subject of the unconscious with the collective and the
contemporary condition; the borderline style and other clinical phenomena of the contemporaneity.
He also talks about the approach of the feminine by psychoanalysis and its
relationship with ideologies in the consideration of the feminist movement. The interview
was reviewed by Pr. Paul-Laurent Assoun.