Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Psychologist, Author
1928 – 2006
Who was Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel?
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel was a leading French psychoanalyst, a training analyst, and past President of the Société psychanalytique de Paris in France. From 1983 to 1989, she was Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Chasseguet-Smirgel was Freud Professor at the University College, London, and Professor of Psychopathology at the Université Lille Nord de France. She is best known for her reworking of the Freudian theory of the ego ideal and its connection to primary narcissism, as well as for her extension of this theory to a critique of utopian ideology.
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- Born
- 1928
Paris - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 5, 2006
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on July 23, 2013
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