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The title of this paper, ‘Naissance d'un corps, origine d'une histoire’, bears witness to the importance that Piera Aulagnier granted to the dimension of history, and more precisely to the notion of historicization which she emphasized, and is related in some ways to that of the identificatory process in the development of personality.
However, as far as her biography is concerned, we are left with scarce material, and the essence of it is mostly intellectual. It lies mainly in her books and articles where we can try and retrace the development and transformation of her thinking. It also resides in the Journals she created: first L'Inconscient (in collaboration with Jean Clavreul), then Topique which she launched in 1969 as sole chief editor, and in the part she actively played in the history of the French psychoanalytical movement, its controversies and schisms.
First in the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP)1 where she trained and graduated and began publishing, then at the Ecole Freudienne de Paris founded in 1964 where she followed Lacan who had just been banned from being a training analyst by the IPA site visit committee when the SFP became an IPA Study Group, out of loyalty and solidarity because she thought the ban was unacceptable rather than out of support for his positions on training.
When Lacan implemented a new graduating procedure he called ‘La Passe’, she, together with François Perrier and J.P. Valabrega fiercely criticized it and refused to comply. As Lacan refused any discussion, she first resigned from her position as Director of Training, then in January 1969 decided to resign from the Ecole Freudienne de Paris together with François Perrier and J.P. Valabrega. They founded the fourth analytic group in France, which they simply named the Quatrième Groupe. The first issue of Topique was on analytic training. Piera Aulagnier was keen to denounce all forms of abuses and alienation by way of transference in the training, and the intrusion of insti