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Psychoanalyst, full member and trainer of the SPP, professor emeritus of psychopathology and clinical psychology at the University of Lyon II.
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Archaic traumas and body language
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2025/5 Vol. 89)
Destructivity and Complex Forms of Object “Survival”
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2009/4 Vol. 73)
The Face of the Outsider and the Matrix of the Negative in Albert Camus
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2015/4 Vol. 79)
Identity and the 'Transitional Double'
- By Johann Jung
- and René Roussillon
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2013/4 Vol. 77)
Cairn Talk with René Roussillon
Play and symbolisations
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Archaic traumas and body language
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2025/5 Vol. 89)
The function of the object in narcissistic regulation
- By René Roussillon,
- Coordinated by Jérémy Tancray
In Le Carnet Psy (2025/4 nº 279)
Research, evaluation, creation in clinical practice
In Le Carnet Psy (2023/4 No 261)
The body device
- By Marion Thevenet
- and René Roussillon
In Le Carnet Psy (2022/6 No 254)
Affect and reflexivity
Toward a differential clinical approach to affect
In Journal de la psychanalyse de l'enfant (2022/1 Vol. 12)
“Affect” by André Green – Commentary by René Roussillon: Affect and the place of the object, intrasubjectivity and intersubjectivity
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2020/5 Vol. 84)
Love at first sight, passion, and hallucination
In Le Carnet Psy (2019/6 No 227)
The transitional and psychoanalytic work during the session
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2018/1 Vol. 82)
Interest of the concept of formal signifier in psychoanalytic family therapy
- By Cristelle Lebon
- and René Roussillon
In Le Divan familial (2017/2 No 39)
Withdrawing in order to survive
In Rhizome (2017/2 No 64)
Destructiveness and Narcissistic Deception
In Le Carnet Psy (2017/4 No 207)
A few considerations on so-called “direct” observation and its interpretation
In Journal de la psychanalyse de l'enfant (2016/2 Vol. 6)
Othello and the Broken Mirror
In Le Carnet Psy (2016/5 No 199)
For a metapsychology of creativity in D. W. Winnicott
In Journal de la psychanalyse de l'enfant (2015/2 Vol. 5)
The Infantile Sexual between Body and Object-other-subject
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2015/5 Vol. 79)
The Face of the Outsider and the Matrix of the Negative in Albert Camus
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2015/4 Vol. 79)
The Criminality of Richard III and the Curse of the Object
In Le Carnet Psy (2015/6 No 191)
A Process Without Subject
In Le Carnet Psy (2015/4 No 189)
Carry On Playing
In Le Carnet Psy (2015/2 No 187)
The Actualisation of the Archaic and Conditions of its Deferred Actions
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2014/5 Vol. 78)
The Caregiver and Narcissistic Identification in Psychic Care Work
In Cliniques (2014/2 No 8)
Narcissism, instinct, and the object
In Journal de la psychanalyse de l'enfant (2014/1 Vol. 4)
The Father and the Question of the Introjection of the Drives
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2013/5 Vol. 77)
Identity and the 'Transitional Double'
- By Johann Jung
- and René Roussillon
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2013/4 Vol. 77)
Primary Seduction and Its Abuses
In Le Carnet Psy (2013/7 No 174)
We Suffer from the Unappropriated Aspects of the Past, We Heal by Integrating Them
In Le Carnet Psy (2012/9 No 167)
The Scene of the Crime: This Other Image of the Confines of Subjectivity
- By Magali Ravit
- and René Roussillon
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2012/4 Vol. 76)
Separation and the Presence/Absence Dialectic
In Le Carnet Psy (2012/7 No 165)
Polymorphous Associativity and the Extensions of Psychoanalysis
In Le Carnet Psy (2012/4 No 162)
Two Paradigms for Borderline Situations: Melancholic Process and Autistic Process
In Le Carnet Psy (2012/3 No 161)
The Concept of the Primary Maternal
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2011/5 Vol. 75)
Sexuality, the Sexual, and Sexualization
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2011/3 Vol. 75)
The Need to Create and the Thought of D. W. Winnicott
In Le Carnet Psy (2011/3 No 152)
Some Reflections on the Contributions of Clinical Treatment in Early Childhood to the Psyche-Soma Question
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2010/5 Vol. 74)
Satisfaction and Shared Pleasure
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2010/1 Vol. 74)
Proposals for a Theory on Mediation-Based Therapeutic Approaches
In Le Carnet Psy (2010/1 No 141)
Destructivity and Complex Forms of Object “Survival”
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2009/4 Vol. 73)
Working Through and Its Ideal
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2008/3 Vol. 72)
The Loss of What Might Have Been: Losing What Has Not Happened
In Le Carnet Psy (2008/8 No 130)
Representation and Updating Drives
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2007/2 Vol. 71)
Introducing the Question of the Language of the Body and of the Act
In Le Carnet Psy (2006/7 No 111)
Looking at Suffering: A Conversation with René Roussillon
- By René Roussillon
- and Denis Dubouchet
In Gestalt (2006/1 No 30)
On the Opposition between Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
In Le Carnet Psy (2006/5 No 109)
The Process and Capacity of Sublimation
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2005/5 Vol. 69)
The Skin-Ego and Reflexivity
In Le Carnet Psy (2007/5 No 118)
The Psychoanalytical Conversation: A Latent Couch
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2005/2 Vol. 69)
Potential and Impasse
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2004/5 Vol. 68)
Intersubjectivity
The Unconscious and the Sexual
In Le Carnet Psy (2004/8 No 94)
Primitive Dependence and “Mirrored” Primary Homosexuality
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2004/2 Vol. 68)
Play and Potential
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2004/1 Vol. 68)
The Shadow and Transformation of the Object
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2002/5 Vol. 66)
The Clinical Decomposition of Sadism
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2002/4 Vol. 66)
The Capacity to Be Alone in the Presence of a Couple
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2002/1 Vol. 66)
The Object, the Experience of Satisfaction, and Intelligibility
In Revue française de psychanalyse (2001/4 Vol. 65)