Maurice Dayan | |
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Born | 25 January 1935 |
Died | 2 May 2020 | (aged 85)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Psychoanalyst |
Maurice Dayan (25 January 1935 – 2 May 2020) was a French psychoanalyst and university professor. [1]
Dayan was the son of a postman. At the age of 14, he bought books by René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Louis Lavelle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. [2] He attended Lycée Turgot in Paris, and won 1st prize in philosophy at the Concours général in 1953. [3]
He was admitted into the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, earning his agrégation in philosophy in 1959. [4] He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Paris Diderot University with a thesis titled Inconscient et Réalité. [5]
He taught psychology at the University of Montpellier, then at Paris Descartes University. Dayan then served as a professor of psychopathology at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, then at Paris Diderot University, where he taught alongside Jean Laplanche, François Gantheret, and Pierre Fédida. [6] From 1995 to 2000, he directed the Laboratoire de psychanalyse et de psychopathologie, which was created by Laplanche in 1970. [7]
Dayan was from the very beginning a member of the editorial board of the journal Psychanalyse à l'université (1975—1994), in which he published several articles.
Maurice Dayan died on 2 May 2020 at the age of 85 at Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. [8] [9]
Maurice Dayan | |
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Born | 25 January 1935 |
Died | 2 May 2020 | (aged 85)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Psychoanalyst |
Maurice Dayan (25 January 1935 – 2 May 2020) was a French psychoanalyst and university professor. [1]
Dayan was the son of a postman. At the age of 14, he bought books by René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Louis Lavelle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. [2] He attended Lycée Turgot in Paris, and won 1st prize in philosophy at the Concours général in 1953. [3]
He was admitted into the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, earning his agrégation in philosophy in 1959. [4] He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Paris Diderot University with a thesis titled Inconscient et Réalité. [5]
He taught psychology at the University of Montpellier, then at Paris Descartes University. Dayan then served as a professor of psychopathology at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, then at Paris Diderot University, where he taught alongside Jean Laplanche, François Gantheret, and Pierre Fédida. [6] From 1995 to 2000, he directed the Laboratoire de psychanalyse et de psychopathologie, which was created by Laplanche in 1970. [7]
Dayan was from the very beginning a member of the editorial board of the journal Psychanalyse à l'université (1975—1994), in which he published several articles.
Maurice Dayan died on 2 May 2020 at the age of 85 at Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. [8] [9]