Octave Mannoni was a leading thinker of France's psychoanalytic tradition surrounding Jacques Lacan. In France he undertook analysis with Lacan and became initiated into clinical practice alongside his wife Maud Mannoni.
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar, and Africa throughout the twentieth century to develop Lacanian psychoanalytic methods in the feld of ethnology. He is best known for his research on the... (more)
One of the first books to challenge traditional approaches to to the study of native African societies by Western colonisers and anthropologists, using the powerful psychoanalytical notion of... (more)