Jean Reboul (1936–)
A practicing gynaecologist and psychoanalyst, Jean Reboul has devoted the bulk of his professional career to a practical and theoretical engagement with the matters of infertility and abortion. Having received a doctorate in biology, as well as in medicine, Reboul became the head of the clinic a the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier in 1976; his publications also reflect the diversity of his training. Reboul contributed to volume seven of the Cahiers pour l’Analyse a Lacanian reading of Honoré de Balzac’s ‘Sarrasine’ (1830), which focuses on the experience of real castration as at once a support for, and a reminder of, a more primordial symbolic lack in the structured field of desire.
In the Cahiers pour l’Analyse
| Jean Reboul, ‘Sarrasine ou la castration personnifiée’, CpA 7.5 | [HTML] | [PDF] | [SYN] |
Select bibliography
- La Femme, le médecin et la stérilité. Paris: Lesot, 1976.
- Le Médecin devant la demande d’avortement: le médecin, la loi et le désir de la femme et du couple. Toulouse: Privat, 1978.
- Le Désir, la mère, l’enfant. Toulouse: Privat, 1986.
- L’impossible enfant: entre corps et parole. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1993.
- Lettres à une jeune fille: le désir et l’amour. Paris: Desclèe de Brouwer, 1999.
- Les quatre saisons d’une femme. Montpellier: Sauramps, 2008.