Jean-Claude Maleval


Jean-Claude Maleval is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst, member of the École de la Cause Freudienne and professor of psychopathology at the University of Rennes 2

Biography

He studied philosophy and psychology at Paris Nanterre University in 1966. He took part in the events of May 1968 by participating in the March 22 Movement founded by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He started his psychoanalytic formation in 1968 with G. Testemale but shortly interrupted and continued with Laurence Bataille. He then completed it with Jacques Lacan.
He started practising as a psychoanalyst in Reims in 1975. He was appointed Member of the École Freudienne de Paris in 1977. Jacques Lacan was his supervisor, then, after his death, with one of his students, member of the Fourth Group, François Perrier. In 1986, he wrote a thesis in psychology entitled The Foundations of the Lacanian Investigation of Psychosis under the direction of Professor Yves Baumstimler at Paris XIII-Villetaneuse University. He became a teacher-researcher at Rennes 2 University in 1988. He was appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology in 1991. He took charge of the training of clinical psychologists. He contributed to setting up a psychoanalytical orientation in the teaching of psychopathology at the University of Rennes 2. He was a member of the Board of Directors of this one between 1998 and 2004, then between 2008 and 2012. He has been professor emeritus since 2014.
He is married to Sophie Marret. She has been a psychoanalyst and professor in the department of psychoanalysis at Paris VIII University since 2009. They have two children, Flavien, born in 1992, and Lara, born in 1996.
He was president of "Psychoanalysis and University Research" from 1992 to 2006.
In 1998, he contributed as an expert to the Belgian consensus conference on the treatment of schizophrenia. He defended the proposition that, in case of non-compliance with treatment, and in case of non-dangerousness, "it is necessary at all costs to respect the autonomy of the patient, and to rely on the therapeutic alliance".
He has been president of the University Psychological Aid Office in Rennes since 2005.
He is among the founding members of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne instituted by Jacques Lacan in 1981 and he has been a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis since its creation in 1992. He did the pass twice, following Lacan’s invention, to collect testimonies in order to shed light on the decision of becoming psychoanalyst. The first time, in 1979, the procedure was interrupted by the dissolution of the Freudian School of Paris in early 1980, so that his testimony remained unanswered. The second time, in 2016, it was not validated. However, he chose to publish his testimony as a clinical case.
In 2013, he participated in the creation of a website, Listening to autistic persons that seeks to promote a psychodynamic approach to autism. He advocates the idea of relying on the passions of autistic persons to promote their evolution, an idea that is not new, but is undeniably essential to their care. He shares the conclusions of some parents of autistic children that showing a child that you take his passion seriously and that you want to share it with him is the most powerful of catalysts.
In 2013 he was in favor of marriage equality. According to him, analytical ethics does not judge of the choice of subjects. It encourages everyone to do with the irreducible singularity of his enjoyment.
Following the work of Rosine and Robert Lefort, in recent research, he tries to identify the characteristics of a subjective autistic structure which differs from that of psychosis.

Works

• Folies hystériques et Psychoses dissociatives. Payot. Paris.1981. 315 p. .
• Logique du délire. Masson. Paris. 1997. 215 p.
• La forclusion du Nom-du-Père. Le concept et sa clinique.. Seuil. Paris. 2000.
• L’ autiste et sa voix. Seuil. Paris. 2009.
• Écoutez les autistes. Navarin / Le champ freudien. Paris. 2012.
• Étonnantes mystifications de la psychothérapie autoritaire. Navarin / Le champ freudien. 2012.
• Repères pour la psychose ordinaire. Navarin/Le champ freudien. Paris. 2019.

Translated works

In spanish:
• Locuras histericas y psicosis disociativas. Buenos-Aires, Mexico. Paidos. 1987.
• Logica del delirio. Ediciones Del Serbal. Barcelone. 1998.
• La forclusion del Nombre del Padre. El concepto y su clinica. Buenos Aires. Paidos. 2002.
• El autista y su voz. Gredos. Madrid. 2011.
• !Escuchen a los autistas ! Grama.Ediciones. 2016.
In italian:
• Isteria e follia. Logica del delirio come tentativo di guarigione. Bruno Mondadori. Milan. 2011.
In greek:
• Ο αυτιοτικοs και η φωνη τομ. EKKPEMEΞ. 2016..
In portuguese:
• O Autista e a sua Voz. Blucher. 2017.

Articles in english

« Why so many borderlines? », in Psychoanalytical Notebooks of the London Circle., 2000, 4, pp. 111–127.
« The «alien abduction» syndrome », in Lands of Darkness. . Karnac books. London. 2003.
« Rather verbose, the autistic subject », in Ornicar ? digital, revue électronique multilingue de psychanalyse, 299, avril 2007.
« From dementia praecocissima to autism sprectrum disorders », in International Lacanian Review. 2009, 5.
« Why is the Depression Bubble Bursting ? » Hurly-Burly. The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2009, 2, pp. 207- 220
« Breaking the Frame to Free the Analyst’s Desire ». Hurly-Burly. The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, 3, pp. 149-154.
« Why is the ideology of evaluation pernicious ? » Psychoanalytic Notebooks. The London Society of the New Lacanian School. 2010, 21, pp. 127-135.
« Listen to the Autists ! » Hurly-Burly. The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012, 7, pp. 171-192.
« What Can Psychotics Hope for Today? ». Quebec: International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. 2008. p. 11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.
« Why the hypothesis of an autistic structure ? » Psychoanalytic notebooks. The London Society of the New Lacanian School. 2012, 25, pp. 27-49.
« Treatment of the psychoses and contemporary psychoanalysis », in Lacan on Madness. Routledge. London. 2015, pp. 99-111.
« Who are autists ? ». Lacunae. International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Dublin. Issue 10, May 2015, pp. 19-58.
« Mottron’s Happy autist is not Kanner’s ». Lacunae. International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Dublin., Issue 16, July 2018, pp. 6–53.