Gérard Lucas is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and honorary training member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He has run various institutions in Paris, including the Alfred Binet Centre from 1978 to 2006, and is the author of numerous books and articles. In 2014 the International Psychoanalytical Association named him vice-president for Europe of its Organisational Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.
After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud’s work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and... (more)