Octave Mannoni

Octave Mannoni
Born29 August 1899
Lamotte-Beuvron, France
Died30 July 1989
Paris, France
CitizenshipFrench
Known forTheory of Colonization
Scientific career
FieldsColonization, Unconscious

Dominique-Octave Mannoni (French: [manoni]; 29 August 1899 – 30 July 1989) was a French psychoanalyst and author who was born in Sologne and died in Paris.

Life

After spending more than twenty years in Madagascar, Mannoni returned to France after World War II where he, inspired by Lacan, published several psychoanalytic books and articles. In 1964, he followed Lacan into the École Freudienne de Paris, where he remained (with his wife Maud Mannoni) a loyal supporter to the end.[1]

Work

Arguably his most well known work, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization, deals with colonization and the psychology of the colonizer and the colonized. Mannoni saw the coloniser, with his "Prospero complex" as one in regressive flight from a father complex, using splitting and the scapegoating of the colonised to evade personal problems;[2] the colonised as hiding resentment behind dependency.[3]

The book was later criticized by writers such as Frantz Fanon for underestimating the socio-materialistic roots of the colonial encounter.[4] Nevertheless, it was to influence a generation of Shakespeare directors like Jonathan Miller,[5] who considered that Mannoni "saw Caliban and Ariel as different forms of black response to white paternalism".[6]

Another of Mannoni's well-known works was "Clefs pour l'imaginaire ou l'Autre Scène", Seuil, 1969.

Bibliography

  • Psychologie de la colonisation, Seuil, 1950, also published as Prospero et Caliban, in 1984, and as Le racisme revisité, in 1997
    • English translation: Prospero and Caliban (1956)
  • Lettres personnelles à Monsieur le Directeur, Seuil, 1951, republished as La Machine in 1977, and once more as Lettres personnelles, fiction lacanienne d'une analyse, in 1990
  • Freud par lui-même. Éditions du Seuil (1968)
    • English translation: Freud: Theory of the Unconscious. Verso Books, 2015.[7]
  • 'The Decolonization of Myself' Race, VII 1966:327-35
  • Clefs pour l'imaginaire ou l'Autre Scène, Seuil, 1969
  • Fictions freudiennes, Seuil, 1978
  • Un commencement qui n'en finit pas : Transfert, interprétation, théorie, Seuil, 1980
  • Ça n'empêche pas d'exister, Seuil, 1982
  • Un si vif étonnement, Seuil, 1988
  • Nous nous quittons, c'est là ma route: carnets, Denoël, 1990

See also

References

  1. ^ E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 293 and 403
  2. ^ V. M. Vaughan ed., The Tempest (1999) Appendix 2 p. 335-9
  3. ^ V. M. Vaughan ed., The Tempest (1999) Appendix 2 p. 339
  4. ^ P. Nayar, Franz Fanon (2013) p. 37-8 and p. 50
  5. ^ C. Alexander, Shakespeare and Race (2000) p. 166
  6. ^ Miller quoted in S. Orgel ed., The Tempest (2008) p. 83
  7. ^ Books, Verso. "Verso Books Theory of the Unconscious". Retrieved March 21, 2022.


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