Rémy Amouroux
Biographic Data
| ID | 2317288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rémy Amouroux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rémy |
| FAMILY NAME | Amouroux |
| SIGNATURE | AMOUROUX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3402-0942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When Criticism Fails
In his recent article, Kelly (2026) accuses Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter of intentionally misrepresenting their 1956 foundational study, When Prophecy Fails . While we acknowledge Kelly's contribution to the literature, we contest the interpretative leap from documenting misrepresentation to alleging intentional misconduct. To illustrate this point, we analysed Kelly's interpretation of Henry Riecken's role, showing how the same archival mat…
What does the princess want?” Misogyny, Marie Bonaparte’s “carnal community,” and the pursuit of a scientific understanding of female pleasure
In 1924, Marie Bonaparte, who would later become a prominent French psychoanalyst, conducted one of the first scientific surveys of female sexual pleasure. In contemporary discourse, her work on women's sexuality is characterized as an obsession, attributed to her allegedly frigid nature. This article draws on recently released archival materials from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, to replace Bonaparte in the history of sexology and w…
Discovering the Freud wars
The text examines the reception in France of the work of Henri F. Ellenberger, a psychiatrist and historian and the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970). In this book, Ellenberger offers a non-Freudian history of dynamic psychiatry, highlighting contributions by Janet, Adler, and Jung to develop a more pluralistic view of psychotherapeutic practices. In the 1970s, France remained strongly dominated by psychoanalysis, while other coun…
Onirologies savantes et sciences humaines
Français : En 1924, Louis Aragon écrit dans son manifeste surréaliste intitulé « Une vague de rêves » que « la contagion du rêve se répand par les quartiers et les campagnes » et proclame « la République des rêves », dont des poètes, des peintres et un certain « Siegmund Freud » seraient les présidents. Alors que sont tout juste parues les premières traductions en langue française des ouvrages de ce dernier, la France vient en effet d’être frappé…
Marie Bonaparte, mécène de la psychanalyse (1882-1962)
La tentation psychobiographique. Autour des archives de Marie Bonaparte
La récente publication de la volumineuse correspondance entre Sigmund Freud et Marie Bonaparte a mis en lumière l’importance des archives de cette dernière. De Paris à Washington, en passant par le Texas, ce sont des dizaines de mètres linéaires qui sont aujourd’hui disponibles. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de textes techniques liés à sa production scientifique, mais aussi et surtout, de documents biographiques : lettres, journaux intimes et produc…
Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization
International audience
Putting psychotherapy in its place
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
The damned behaviorist” versus French phenomenologists
What do we know about the history of John Broadus Watson's behaviorism outside of its American context of production? In this article, using the French example, we propose a study of some of the actors and debates that structured this history. Strangely enough, it was not a "classic" experimental psychologist, but Pierre Naville (1904-1993), a former surrealist, Marxist philosopher, and sociologist, who can be identified as the initial promoter o…
Beyond indifference and aversion
In 1960s France, behavior therapy attracted the attention of a group of isolated pioneers largely composed of psychiatrists and some experimental psychologists. At the beginning of the 1970s, after a discreet introduction, the development of this movement provoked an adverse reaction related to the French intellectual context, which was characterized by a taste for psychoanalysis. At the height of the Cold War, this new form of therapy was, moreo…
Des relations déraisonnables ? Marie Bonaparte, son chien Topsy, la biologie et la psychanalyse
Analysée par Sigmund Freud, Marie Bonaparte devint son élève et eut un rôle capital dans le développement de la psychanalyse en France. Elle fut aussi une proche de Gustave Le Bon, passionnée comme lui par les sciences, et fréquenta notamment les scientifiques de l’Institut Pasteur. Outre son œuvre de psychanalyste, elle publia en 1937 un texte sur le cancer de sa chienne Topsy qui sera traduit en allemand par Freud et connaîtra un réel succès éd…
A Serious Venture’
John Rodker (1894-1955) was the founder of the British publishing house--the Imago Publishing Company--which undertook the republication of the complete works of Sigmund Freud in German just before World War II. Rodker, himself a writer as well as a publisher, was initially tempted by a psychoanalytic career; numerous obstacles, however, lay in his path. War, along with the complicated management of the royalties from Freud's writings, compromise…
Marie Bonaparte, her first two patients and the literary world
Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) played a critical role in the development of psychoanalysis in France. Her clinical activity is not well known yet she was one of the first female French psychoanalysts. The journalist-writers Alice and Valerio Jahier were Bonaparte's first two patients. She conducted this dual analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein (1898-1976). Alice and Valerio exchanged analysts on several occasions. During his analysis, Valerio began co…
Beyond indifference and aversion
In 1960s France, behavior therapy attracted the attention of a group of isolated pioneers largely composed of psychiatrists and some experimental psychologists. At the beginning of the 1970s, after a discreet introduction, the development of this movement provoked an adverse reaction related to the French intellectual context, which was characterized by a taste for psychoanalysis. At the height of the Cold War, this new form of therapy was, moreo…
Putting psychotherapy in its place
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
Marie Bonaparte, her first two patients and the literary world
Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) played a critical role in the development of psychoanalysis in France. Her clinical activity is not well known yet she was one of the first female French psychoanalysts. The journalist-writers Alice and Valerio Jahier were Bonaparte's first two patients. She conducted this dual analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein (1898-1976). Alice and Valerio exchanged analysts on several occasions. During his analysis, Valerio began co…
Discovering the Freud wars
The text examines the reception in France of the work of Henri F. Ellenberger, a psychiatrist and historian and the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970). In this book, Ellenberger offers a non-Freudian history of dynamic psychiatry, highlighting contributions by Janet, Adler, and Jung to develop a more pluralistic view of psychotherapeutic practices. In the 1970s, France remained strongly dominated by psychoanalysis, while other coun…
Onirologies savantes et sciences humaines
Français : En 1924, Louis Aragon écrit dans son manifeste surréaliste intitulé « Une vague de rêves » que « la contagion du rêve se répand par les quartiers et les campagnes » et proclame « la République des rêves », dont des poètes, des peintres et un certain « Siegmund Freud » seraient les présidents. Alors que sont tout juste parues les premières traductions en langue française des ouvrages de ce dernier, la France vient en effet d’être frappé…
The damned behaviorist” versus French phenomenologists
What do we know about the history of John Broadus Watson's behaviorism outside of its American context of production? In this article, using the French example, we propose a study of some of the actors and debates that structured this history. Strangely enough, it was not a "classic" experimental psychologist, but Pierre Naville (1904-1993), a former surrealist, Marxist philosopher, and sociologist, who can be identified as the initial promoter o…
A Serious Venture’
John Rodker (1894-1955) was the founder of the British publishing house--the Imago Publishing Company--which undertook the republication of the complete works of Sigmund Freud in German just before World War II. Rodker, himself a writer as well as a publisher, was initially tempted by a psychoanalytic career; numerous obstacles, however, lay in his path. War, along with the complicated management of the royalties from Freud's writings, compromise…
Marie Bonaparte, her first two patients and the literary world
Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) played a critical role in the development of psychoanalysis in France. Her clinical activity is not well known yet she was one of the first female French psychoanalysts. The journalist-writers Alice and Valerio Jahier were Bonaparte's first two patients. She conducted this dual analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein (1898-1976). Alice and Valerio exchanged analysts on several occasions. During his analysis, Valerio began co…
A Serious Venture’
John Rodker (1894-1955) was the founder of the British publishing house--the Imago Publishing Company--which undertook the republication of the complete works of Sigmund Freud in German just before World War II. Rodker, himself a writer as well as a publisher, was initially tempted by a psychoanalytic career; numerous obstacles, however, lay in his path. War, along with the complicated management of the royalties from Freud's writings, compromise…
Des relations déraisonnables ? Marie Bonaparte, son chien Topsy, la biologie et la psychanalyse
Analysée par Sigmund Freud, Marie Bonaparte devint son élève et eut un rôle capital dans le développement de la psychanalyse en France. Elle fut aussi une proche de Gustave Le Bon, passionnée comme lui par les sciences, et fréquenta notamment les scientifiques de l’Institut Pasteur. Outre son œuvre de psychanalyste, elle publia en 1937 un texte sur le cancer de sa chienne Topsy qui sera traduit en allemand par Freud et connaîtra un réel succès éd…
Beyond indifference and aversion
In 1960s France, behavior therapy attracted the attention of a group of isolated pioneers largely composed of psychiatrists and some experimental psychologists. At the beginning of the 1970s, after a discreet introduction, the development of this movement provoked an adverse reaction related to the French intellectual context, which was characterized by a taste for psychoanalysis. At the height of the Cold War, this new form of therapy was, moreo…
The damned behaviorist” versus French phenomenologists
What do we know about the history of John Broadus Watson's behaviorism outside of its American context of production? In this article, using the French example, we propose a study of some of the actors and debates that structured this history. Strangely enough, it was not a "classic" experimental psychologist, but Pierre Naville (1904-1993), a former surrealist, Marxist philosopher, and sociologist, who can be identified as the initial promoter o…
Putting psychotherapy in its place
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
Marie Bonaparte, mécène de la psychanalyse (1882-1962)
La tentation psychobiographique. Autour des archives de Marie Bonaparte
La récente publication de la volumineuse correspondance entre Sigmund Freud et Marie Bonaparte a mis en lumière l’importance des archives de cette dernière. De Paris à Washington, en passant par le Texas, ce sont des dizaines de mètres linéaires qui sont aujourd’hui disponibles. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de textes techniques liés à sa production scientifique, mais aussi et surtout, de documents biographiques : lettres, journaux intimes et produc…
Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization
International audience
Onirologies savantes et sciences humaines
Français : En 1924, Louis Aragon écrit dans son manifeste surréaliste intitulé « Une vague de rêves » que « la contagion du rêve se répand par les quartiers et les campagnes » et proclame « la République des rêves », dont des poètes, des peintres et un certain « Siegmund Freud » seraient les présidents. Alors que sont tout juste parues les premières traductions en langue française des ouvrages de ce dernier, la France vient en effet d’être frappé…
What does the princess want?” Misogyny, Marie Bonaparte’s “carnal community,” and the pursuit of a scientific understanding of female pleasure
In 1924, Marie Bonaparte, who would later become a prominent French psychoanalyst, conducted one of the first scientific surveys of female sexual pleasure. In contemporary discourse, her work on women's sexuality is characterized as an obsession, attributed to her allegedly frigid nature. This article draws on recently released archival materials from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, to replace Bonaparte in the history of sexology and w…
Discovering the Freud wars
The text examines the reception in France of the work of Henri F. Ellenberger, a psychiatrist and historian and the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970). In this book, Ellenberger offers a non-Freudian history of dynamic psychiatry, highlighting contributions by Janet, Adler, and Jung to develop a more pluralistic view of psychotherapeutic practices. In the 1970s, France remained strongly dominated by psychoanalysis, while other coun…
When Criticism Fails
In his recent article, Kelly (2026) accuses Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter of intentionally misrepresenting their 1956 foundational study, When Prophecy Fails . While we acknowledge Kelly's contribution to the literature, we contest the interpretative leap from documenting misrepresentation to alleging intentional misconduct. To illustrate this point, we analysed Kelly's interpretation of Henry Riecken's role, showing how the same archival mat…
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