Background
Aulagnier was born in Milan in 1923.
Aulagnier was born in Milan in 1923.
Her contributions to psychoanalysis include the concepts of interpretative violence, pictogram and originary process. She underwent training analysis with Jacques Lacan from 1955 to 1961. In 1969, Aulagnier, Jean-Paul Valabrega and François Perrier created the Organisation psychanalytique de langue française.
The organization played a prominent role in post-Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Aulagnier"s theory deals with the experiences of infant-mother relationships in early childhood. Developing forward from both Donald Winnicott and Lacan, Aulagnier offers an original theory of child psychosis.
Aulagnier died in 1990 in Paris.
Aulagnier, founding member of the journal Tropique is considered one of the most influential French psychoanalysts of her generation, together with Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis and André Green.