Bernard Golse

Psychoanalysis still holds conceptual treasures for psychiatry, for psychopathology, and for understanding the human being.

Abstract

This interview took place after Bernard Golse's return to Paris from Montevideo, as part of his participation in the 2nd Conference of the International Coordination of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and Associate Members Working with People with Autism, Latin America (CIPPA LA), "Body and Autism." During this visit, he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Republic (UdelaR), a recognition sponsored by the Faculties of Psychology, Medicine, and Nursing. In an après-coup to this brief yet intense visit, Golse recalled his ties to Uruguay and compared the situation of psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic. The second half of the conversation focused on the role of the infant as an opportunity for psychoanalysis to delve deeper into the origins of the psyche. Without abandoning his theoretical foundations, he concluded by defending what he calls a third, very early intrapsychic topic, beyond the subject-object pair.