InterviewIn an interview with Le Monde, the historian and psychoanalyst argues that the men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged are perverts, and that the trial is not about ...

On a subject where hysteria often seems to reign, a brilliant, well thought-out and balanced new book like “Return to the Jewish Question” (Retour sur la question juive) by the French historian and ...

Historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco publishes "Retour sur la question juive" (Back to the ‘Jewish Question’), an inquiry into anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism, and Zionism’s supporters and ...

Part-way through Élisabeth Roudinesco’s newest book on the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author cites some telling film footage in which the man himself is recorded in full flow, performing ...

Every Saturday and Wednesday, 4pm: The training courses of the Arab Singing House students. Every Saturday and Tuesday, 2pm: Enshad Dini (religious chanting) workshop by Munshid Mahmoud Al-Tohamy.

What a time to choose to forge the theory, as Freud then did, that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian. Roudinesco attributes the genesis of this absurd claim to Freud’s enthusiasm for Joseph and His ...

This biography represents a substantial, if not groundbreaking, addition to the extensive body of work on the father of psychoanalysis. The very fact that Sigmund Freud’s life has inspired a deluge of ...

Biographers of Freud face a very specific set of challenges. It is not just that he has been both valorised and demonised '“ one could easily say the same about Picasso, Schönberg or DH Lawrence. The ...