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Pierre Janet

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Pierre Janet


Born
in Paris, France
March 30, 1859

Died
February 24, 1947

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Pierre Marie Félix Janet was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.

Janet was one of the first people to allege a connection between events in a subject's past life and his or her present-day trauma, and coined the words "dissociation" and "subconscious". His study of the "magnetic passion" or "rapport" between the patient and the hypnotist anticipated later accounts of the transference phenomenon.

The 20th century saw Janet developing a grand model of the mind in terms of levels of energy, efficiency and social competence, which he set out in publications including
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The Fear of Action: A Class...

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The Major Symptoms Of Hyste...

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L' évolution psychologique ...

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Psicología de los sentimientos

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De L'angoisse À L'extase Vo...

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Les Névroses

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Disaggregazione, spiritismo...

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La passione sonnambulica e ...

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L'Amour et la Haine

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The Mental State of Hysteri...

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“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)”
Pierre Janet

“Parler est déjà ennuyeux, mais enfin on peut arriver à se faire comprendre.”
Pierre Janet, L'Amour et la Haine

“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.”
Pierre Janet