Background
Gregorio Kohon was born on October 7, 1943, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into the family of Jose Israel and Elizabeth (Bartscherer) Kohon. In 1970 he immigrated to England, and then left for Australia in 1988.
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1986
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1999
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1999
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2005
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2013
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2017
Gregorio Kohon was born on October 7, 1943, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into the family of Jose Israel and Elizabeth (Bartscherer) Kohon. In 1970 he immigrated to England, and then left for Australia in 1988.
In 1964 - 1969 Gregorio attended Universidad Nacional de la Plata.
Gregorio Kohon has had a long career as a psychotherapist. First, he worked briefly in that capacity in his native Argentina, then moved to London, where he had a private practice for eighteen years before relocating to Australia and going into practice in that country. He first gained fame as a writer, however - at least in Argentina and other Latin American countries - for his poetry. His first collection. "Puntos de partida", saw print in 1963. His volume of poems, "Odetta en Babilonia y el rápido a Canada", was published in 1969. Kohon’s poetry has gained a place in several Latin American anthologies as well, including 1975’s "Generación poética del 60" and 1979’s "Antología de la poesía Argentina."
Kohon has contributed scholarly writing to the mental health profession as well. In 1986 he edited "The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition." In 1988 he founded the Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Since his return to London in 1995, he works in private practice.
With conceptual clarity, Kohon’s work affirms and elaborates fundamental Freudian ideas of infantile sexuality such as the importance in both sexes of the phallic stage for psychic structuring. He clarifies the role of Nachtraglichkeit or deferred action (the idea that experiences and memories are reworked in the light of later experience and development) and the symbolic importance of paternal function. He contributes theoretically in differentiating the fundamental structuring function of castration anxiety and the Oedipus complex in Freud, from the earlier Oedipus complex, linked to weaning, later theorised by Klein. He also calls the links between experiences in the early fusional mother child relationship primary madness, and psychotic breakdown.
He differentiates need from desire and marks out the privileged position of the wish and its link with phantasy for a psychoanalytic understanding of the mind. For the Anglo-Saxon world, Kohon integrates structuralism in regarding the taboo against incest and the regulation of desire as a structural category. He sets store by the importance of primal phantasies and makes use of Laplanche’s theory of seduction through enigmatic signifiers.
On August 3, 1974 Gregorio married a child psychotherapist Valli Shaio, with whom he has three children: Sebastian Jose, Silvana Iris Liliana, and Mariela Vera Shaio.
