Annie Tardits studied Philosophy at the Ecole Normal Superieure. She is a Freudian psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She has published a number of studies on psychoanalytic theory and practice and on psychoanalysis and artistic creation (in particular her paper in Joyce and Lacan, edited by Jacques Aubert, and a paper on psychoanalysis and anthropology in 'Lacan and Levi-Strauss in 1956' in the review Figures de la Psychanalyse.
If psychoanalysis, for Freud, was an impossible profession, what consequences would this have for psychoanalytic training? And if one's own personal analysis lay at the heart of psychoanalytic... (more)