Charles Odier

Biography

Charles Odier made studies of medicine then, training courses with Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He met Freud and made his analysis with Karl Abraham and Franz Alexander. He had been psychiatrist in Geneva with the Asile of Beautiful-Air, with Villejuif and the Salpêtrière. He knew the psychoanalysis with Geneva thanks to Theodore Flournoy. He was also influenced by Edouard Claparède, Jean Piaget and Pierre Janet. From 1929 to 1939, it was devoted to promote the psychoanalysis in Paris and was in those, with Raymond de Saussure in particular, which founded the Psychoanalytical Société of Paris. He worked much of the concepts like the genesis of the Me, the Surmoi, the " on-ça" , of the anguish, and the question of the consequences of the abandonment which was then taken again by its collaborator Germaine Guex. It also tried to combine the approach of Piaget for what it called " the method génético-analytique". It left Paris for Lausanne where it largely contributed has to train young analysts, maintaining contacts scientific with reviews, " psychiatric Evolution " , etc It in particular analyzed Michel Gressot and Rene Henny. He was married in first weddings with Ilse Loebel, his pupil, widow of the famous linguist Jules Ronjat.

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