Lionel Bailly
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| Born | Paris, France |
| Education | Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris |
| Institutions | University College London Association Lacanienne Internationale |
| Academic advisors | Jean Bergès |
Main interests | Jacques Lacan Sigmund Freud War and Trauma |
Notable ideas | Maternal Metonymy The Maternal Covenant |
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Lionel Bailly is a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist specialising in the work of Jacques Lacan. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London, where he teaches French psychoanalysis, and a consultant psychiatrist for the NHS.[1] He is a member of the Association Lacanienne Internationale, co-founded in 1982 by his supervisor Jean Bergès.[2]
Bailly has published numerous books and papers on Lacan, Freud, and the consequences of war in children.
Biography and Education
Bailly studied medicine and psychiatry at the Salpêtrière Hospital, part of Sorbonne University in Paris. Under the influence of Jean Bergès, he became head of Sainte-Anne Hospital's Bio-psychopathology Unit.
Work
Bailly is perhaps most well-known for his 2007 book Lacan: A Beginner's Guide, in which he presents an advanced systematic introduction to Lacan's work. The publication was widely recognised as helping students engage with the difficult work of Lacan, without sacrificing the complexity and originality of Lacanian theory.[3]
Influenced by Juliet Mitchell's work on 'The Law of the Mother' (a variation on Lacan's 'Name of the Father' which grounds the symbolic structures of the law), Bailly introduced the 'Maternal Covenant' in a 2022 publication[4]. Bailly argued that the more implicit socialising role of the mother could not be assimilated to the prohibiting and signifying level of Law, the latter being a consequence of the empty, yet crucial, 'paternal metaphor'. He therefore introduced the Maternal Covenant as a rudimentary agreement between mother and children, which in itself introduces certain imaginary exchange-relations between children and their mothers, yet which lacks the radical inter-subjective structuring unique to the Law.
Publications
Books
- Les Catastrophes et leurs Conséquences Psychotraumatiques chez l'Enfant, ESF, 1996
- Lacan: A Beginner's Guide, Oneworld, 2007
Edited
- The Lacan Tradition, edited with David Lichtenstein and Sharmini Bailly, Routledge, 2018
References
- ↑ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/people/lionel-bailly
- ↑ https://www.freud-lacan.com/l-ali
- ↑ Bailly, Lionel (2007). Lacan: A Beginner's Guide. Oneworld. ISBN-10 1851686371.
- ↑ Bailly, Lionel (2022). The Maternal Covenant role and function of the mother in the social field. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. doi: 10.1080/00207578.2021.1989983.
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