Roudinesco, Elisabeth

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ROUDINESCO, Elisabeth

ROUDINESCO, Elisabeth. French, b. 1944. Genres: Psychology, History. Career: Writer; psychoanalyst. Member of de ecole Freudienne de Paris, 1969-80; Universite de Paris VII, director of research of history department, 1992-; L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, minister of conferences, 1992-96; Maison des Ecrivains, committee member. Publications: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, 2 vol., 1982, trans. as A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985, 1990; Theroigne de Mericourt, une femme melancolique sous la revolution, 1986, trans. as Theroigne de Meri- court: Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution, 1991; Revolution and Madness: The Lives and Legends of Theroigne de Mericourt, 1992; Jacques Lacan, Esquisse d'une vie, histoire d'un systeme de pensee, 1993, trans. as Jacques Lacan, 1997; Genealogies, 1994; (with M. Peon) Dictionnaire de la psychanalyse, 1997; Pourquoi la psychanalyse, 1999. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 89 ave. Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France.