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Dn the evening of December 8 to 9, his household introduced, Jean-Pierre Winter died on the age of 74, in Paris, following a protracted sickness. With this sensible psychoanalyst and essayist that the readers of Point know effectively, a sum disappears: of information, and of humanity. A Jew of Hungarian mother and father who had taken refuge in France, he recounted throughout his reception speech for his Legion of Honor – introduced to him by François Sureau in October 2023 – how, from the age of 14, he accompanied his mom to resume her residence allow whereas the bailiffs seized the furnishings as a result of his father, a tailor on the path, didn’t arrive on the finish of the month regardless of working “like hell”. Jean-Pierre Winter, too, labored like hell. But a cheerful damned individual – if it would not exist, he could have invented it.
He discovered himself in Paris on the age of 16, the household having joined Israel, he obtained by with the help of outstanding individuals together with a instructor he appreciated to cite, and by giving Hebrew classes, however already knew what awaited him. At the age of 14, in actual fact, a radio program revealed his future to him, and put him on the path of Freud’s writings. He could be a psychoanalyst. And within the issue – on the restrict of survival – wherein he finds himself, he takes motion and calls Jacques Lacan outright. Who will get it! “I took it for ten years, at six sessions per week! » said the one who referred to the master, as well as to Françoise Dolto, with whom he published interviews.
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Jean-Pierre Winter co-founded and chaired the Freudian Cost Movement, he worked everywhere, from seminars to conferences and notably in Martinique, to the transmission of psychoanalysis to which he dedicated his life. But this insatiable reader, keen on literature, admirer of Georges Shéhadé to name but one, also leaves behind a fascinating work. Let us just mention: God, love and psychoanalysis (with Anne Dufourmantelle, Bayard), The wanderers of the flesh (Calmann Lévy), on the rare subject of male hysteria, or even Politicians on the couchCalmann-Lévy, 1995.
ALSO READ Macron, the French and the political crisis seen by psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre WinterBecause Winter liked to confront his art with the comedy of every day, with the turmoil of current events. This is how he often intervened in the media, or in reaction to an event such as September 11, 2001, with Stupor in civilization (Poor). In recent years, he had signed several articles and works asserting his positions against same-sex parenting which earned him accusations which distressed those who know him well. Homophobic, Winter? Impossible. But inseparable from the figure of the “Father”. Ah sure, however away from any activism. Among the final works that he gave to his writer and buddy Mathilde Nobécourt is exactly The Future of the Father (Albin Michel)
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We questioned if this man who regarded like Moses didn’t know the Bible by coronary heart however his curiosity, remembers his editor, additionally led him in the direction of secular Jewish thought. He was additionally a member of the CIASE (Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse within the Church). His sufferers will cry for him as a result of he was so attentive. And we consider his spouse, his three sons, and his quite a few grandchildren who stuffed this patriarch. With a sunny smile. With humor to the purpose, beneficiant intelligence embodied. Jean-Pierre Winter.
“There is only freedom for those who know what determines it,” he mentioned.
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