The Birth of a Political Self

Psychoanalyst in three public psychiatric hospitals for 30 years, and is still in private practice. She was a member of the Ecole Freudienne, founded by Jacques Lacan, until its dissolution; and a faculty member of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she led a weekly seminar on ‘Madness and the Social Link’ with Jean Max Gaudillière until his death in 2015. She has been Erikson Scholar in the Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, USA. She is a member of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis and lectures regularly in Europe, the USA and Latin America. Her books in English are History beyond Trauma (2004); Wittgenstein's Folly (2012); Mother Folly (2014); Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching (2016); and A Word to the Wise: Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion (2018).