The Psychoanalysis of Madness: A Fight Against Perversion

2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Françoise Davoine has published two books on Don Quixote and the psychoanalysis of madness. She views this “greatest of all novels” as Cervantes’ attempt to find his way out of madness with his “son,” Don Quixote, as his guide. He has been a guide for Davoine as well in her own work with madness and trauma. Her first book on Don Quixote addressed the fight against melancholia; the second, the fight against perversion. Focusing on the second study and using clinical examples, she will discuss the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma—a fight against perversion, enacted in the transference. 

Françoise Davoine, PhD, worked for thirty years as a psychoanalyst in public psychiatric hospitals in France, and is currently in private practice. She was a professor at the Center for the Study of Social Movements of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and is the author of many articles and books, including Wittgenstein’s Folly, Mother Folly, and History Beyond Trauma (with Jean-Max Gaudillière).

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