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Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) was a psychoanalyst and philosopher, member of the Association psychanalytique de France and the International Psychoanalytic Association, a Professor of the University of Paris and founder of the Laboratory of Fundamental Psychopathology, the Centre de l'étude du vivant and the Institute for Contemporary Thought (all three in Paris). He was a prominent figure in the generation of psychoanalytic thinkers of the long 1960s which also included André Green, Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Didier Anzieu and Julia Kristeva. Fédida's thinking and writing are noted for their rigorous attention to the technical aspects of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, including to the texts of Freud, and for an anti-dogmatic and transdisciplinary approach which enabled him to range widely in his points of reference, including between French and British psychoanalytic thought. Informed by his early training in phenomenology with Ludwig Binswanger and Roland Kuhn, his thought and clinical practice were characterized by a sustained attention to the somatic, corporeal experience of psychic suffering, and to the liminal elements which punctuate
PATRICK FFRENCH is Professor of French at King's College London in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and co-Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health at King's. He is the author of The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (Oxford University Press, ), The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'œil (British Academy, ), After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (Legenda, ), Thinking Cinema with Proust (Legenda, ) and Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism, Poetics (Bloomsbury, ). With Nigel Saint he is currently translating the work of French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida.
NIGEL SAINT is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds and author of Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual (Legenda/MHRA, ), as well as articles on Georges Perec, Louis Marin, Georges Didi-Huberman an
PATRICK FFRENCH is Professor of French at King's College London in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and co-Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health at King's. He is the author of The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (Oxford University Press, ), The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'œil (British Academy, ), After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (Legenda, ), Thinking Cinema with Proust (Legenda, ) and Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism, Poetics (Bloomsbury, ). With Nigel Saint he is currently translating the work of French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida.
NIGEL SAINT is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds and author of Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual (Legenda/MHRA, ), as well as articles on Georges Perec, Louis Marin, Georges Didi-Huberman an