Élisabeth Roudinesco
Élisabeth Roudinesco | |
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Roudinesco in 2007 | |
| Born | September 10, 1944 Paris, France |
| Alma mater | University of Paris University of Paris VIII |
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| Awards | Prix Décembre |
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| Institutions | École normale supérieure Paris Diderot University School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Thesis | Inscription du désir et roman du sujet (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean Levaillant |
| Other academic advisors | Tzvetan Todorov |
Élisabeth Roudinesco (French: [ʁudinɛsko]; born 10 September 1944) is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure.
Roudinesco's work focuses mainly on psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis in France but also worldwide. She has written biographies of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud. Her biography of Freud, Freud, In his Time and Ours, was awarded the "Prix Décembre" 2014 and The "Prix des Prix" 2014. With Michel Plon, she published a huge Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (7th édition in 2023), which was translated into many languages, though not yet into English. Her book Généalogies (also unpublished in English) was awarded The Best Book Prize by The Société française d'histoire de la médecine. Her work has been translated into thirty languages.