Published in La Psychanalyse, 1957, no. 3, pp. 322‐324.
Published bilingual, translated by Anthony Chadwick, at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (77. Intervention sur l’exposé de Monsieur Hesnard : Réflexions sur le « Wo Es war, soll Ich werden de Freud » à la Société Française de Psychanalyse, 1956, Nov)
Angélo Louis Marie Hesnard (1886-1969)
A psychoanalyst, doctor with the French Navy, and professor at the École Principale du Service de Santé de la Marine, Angélo Louis Marie Hesnard was born in Pontivy in the Morbihan, on May 22, 1886, and died in Rochefort-sur-Mer on April 17, 1969. He was coauthor of the first French work on psychoanalysis and one of the founding members of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP). He was the son of Angélo Théodose Hesnard and Lélia Célénis Rosalie Blancon, from a family of judges. His brother Oswald, who had a degree in German, helped him understand Freud’s writings.
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Nonetheless, Hesnard remained part of a small group of psychiatrists who opposed the more cultural approach to psychoanalysis represented by Marie Bonaparte. They especially rejected the authority of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and even of Freud himself—a division that would nearly lead to a split among their ranks in the late nineteen thirties. On January 23, 1932, Hesnard wrote to Bernard Grasset, whom he was trying, in vain, to treat, “I beg you, forget all that flashiness, the grandiloquence, all those ‘Oedipuses.’ You, as a subtle and marvelously intuitive Gaul, should not let yourself be misled further by those Judeo-Germanic specters of enchantment” (Bothorel, J., 1989).
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Hesnard participated indirectly in the renewal of the SPP and was also one of the members of the honor committee of the group and the review Psyché, founded by Maryse Choisy in 1946, which brought together, aside from René Laforgue, religious and academic scholars and Jungian psychologists who had not been admitted to the SPP. He participated in writing the Dictionnaire de psychanalyse et de psychotechnique, which was being prepared in 1949, under the direction of Maryse Choisy and later Daniel Lagache.
At this time Hesnard moved into the “Port-Hesnard” villa in the Mourillon quarter of Toulon, where he practiced psychoanalytic therapy. He was criticized for his lack of rigor in his work, a reproach that was used against him during the negotiations intended to reintegrate the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) into the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) because he had sided with Jacques Lacan during the June 1953 split. In June 1957 he was dismissed from the SPP for “non-payment of dues and failure to participate in society activities.”
Although he was elected president of the SFP in 1959, one of the “recommendations” of the IPA committee, made during the Edinburgh congress of 1961, stipulated “that the current practice of keeping Doctors Hesnard and Laforgue out of the training program be maintained. With respect to Doctor Hesnard’s students, these can participate in regular analytic training or they will not be admitted as students of the society.” Hesnard again sided with Lacan in 1964 during the foundation of the École freudienne de Paris (Freudian school of Paris) and, in 1968, became a member of its “accreditation committee.”
Reference to Freud
Wo Es war; soll Ich warden, is the penultimate sentence in Vorlesung XXXI, Die Zerlegung der psychischen Persönlichkeit; G.W. XV, page 86;
-In translation, Lecture XXXI (31) – The Dissection of the Psychical Personality (1932), SE XXII p80, from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis : 1932 (Published 1933) : Sigmund Freud
Information see this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19330101 or 19320616 or Wo Es war; soll Ich warden (/13000000 Quotations from Sigmund Freud) or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
Other citations of ‘Wo Es war; soll Ich werden’ (Lecture XXXI)
-A preliminary engagement with ‘Psychoanalytic Violence: An Essay in Indifference in Ethical Matters’ : 30th July 2017 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans or Index of Julia Evans’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo es war, soll Ich werden’)
-What makes the initial interventions by an analyst work? : 1st April 2017 (London, Open Clinical Group Meeting) : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans or Index of Julia Evans’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo es war, soll Ich werden’)
-In notes to Habeus Corpus : 28th April 2016 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) : Jacques-Alain Miller, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Miller or Index of Authors’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’)
-Notes on Seminar VII 18th November 1959, p7-15 (Wo es war …, & polymorphous perversion, & Jouissance/Happiness definition) : 6th October 2012 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans or Index of Julia Evans’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo es war, soll Ich werden’)
-Notes from p1 – 7 of Seminar VII from a Reading Group (Wo es War, … & perverse jouissance) : 15th September 2012 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans or Index of Julia Evans’ texts) /Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’
-On the False Usefulness of Anxiety and the Benefits of Working through it : October 2004 : François Leguil, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Leguil or Index of Authors’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’)
-The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Today : 1999 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index of Authors’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’)
-Lacan’s Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” – Overview : 1988 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson or Index of Authors’ texts) (Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’)
-Lacan’s Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” – Notes to the Text : 1988 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson or Index of Authors’ texts) (Two references to ‘Wo es war, Ich soll werden’)
Citations by Jacques Lacan
-Seminar XI : 29th January 1964 : p33 of Alan Sheridan’s translation
-& Seminar XI : 5th February 1964 : p44 of Alan Sheridan’s translation : Seminar XI The Four Fundamental Concepts (1963-1964) : from 15th January 1964 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19640115 or 19640129 or 19640205 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts) both refer to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’ in the last paragraph.
Seminar VII 18th November 1959, see Session of Seminar VII The attraction of transgression : 18th November 1959 : Jacques Lacan, on this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19591118) or Seminar VII The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-1960) : from 18th November 1959 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19591118 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
-The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis : 7th November 1955 (Vienna) : Jacques Lacan, this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19551107) (Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’)