Interview with Professor Paul-Laurent 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 con-nection 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 con-temporaneity. 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.