Maurice Dayan

Maurice Dayan (25 January 1935 – 2 May 2020) was a French psychoanalyst and university professor.^[1]

Maurice Dayan
Born	25 January 1935 Paris, France
Died	2 May 2020(2020-05-02) (aged 85)
Nationality	French
Occupation	Psychoanalyst

Biography

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]

Publications

• "Représentation, délire, histoire" in Psychanalyse à l'université (1975)
• "Freud en Cacanie: de quelques prémisses historiques de la psychanalyse" in Psychanalyse à l'université (1977)
• L'Arbre des styles (1980)
• "Le fantasme et l'événement" in Psychanalyse à l'université (1985)
• Inconscient et réalité (1985)
• Les Relations au réel dans la psychose : critique de l'héritage freudien (1985)
• Un interprète en quête de sens (1986)
• Trauma et devenir psychique (1995)^[10]
• Le Rêve nous pense-t-il (2004)
• Dire et devenir : une exploration des effets du langage dans la temporalité de l'analyse (2014)
• "Le rêve nous pense-t-il ? Reprise d’une interrogation" in Le Coq-Héron (2016)