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We are sad to report that Antoine Corel, a former Member of the Board of our Journal, on which he served for more than 15 years, has died of Covid in Paris. He was especially valued on the Board for his deep knowledge of Freud (and post-Freudians), and he could be counted on to spot any errors. Born in Argentina, he began his career as a medical doctor in Lanari Institute of Clinical Research. As a cinema critic for Diario la Prensa, he wrote 1000 reviews signed A.C. He was a member of the International Jury of Critics with Jean Baroncelli (France) and Alexander Mackendrick (England) for the International Mar del Plata Festival , and as an example of his activities, he interviewed Passolini and Callas about Medea .
His training analyst in Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) was Rebeca Grinberg. He wrote an essay on construction in Freud’s work, hailed by Horacio Etchegoyen as a turning point at a time when this concept was rarely used. His approach was that “the patient’s history is constructed in the psychoanalytic process” (written in 1976, the year of his emigration from Argentina to France with his wife Haydee Faimberg and two children Claudina and Eduardo). Dr Corel and Dr Faimberg became prominent Members of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (IPA).
Antoine Corel’s essays presented at IPA congresses - where he made a significant contribution to our understanding of the interface between film and psychoanalysis - are noteworthy and worth revisiting. For example, in his essay, ‘Language and Time in Citizen Kane’, written in 1998, speaking about the moment Susan leaves Kane, Corel writes: “The camera pans to the right to frame a black empty space, which reveals itself to be a mirror when Kane appears and is reflected in an endless number of images. We have before our eyes the birth of the narcissistic grandiose mirror image arising in place of a severe loss.” (Psychoanal. Inq.,18,2:154:160, Corel MD.) In the International Journal, he published ‘Theo Angelo