Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel

French psychologist & psychoanalyst

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1928

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 05-Mar-2006

Profession: psychologist, psychoanalyst

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (1928 – March 5, 2006) (whose surname is alternatively spelled Chasseguet-Smirguel, but generally not in English-language publications) was a leading French psychoanalyst, a training analyst, and past President of the Société psychanalytique de Paris in France.
From 1983 to 1989, she was Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Chasseguet-Smirgel was Freud Professor at the University College, London, and Professor of Psychopathology at the Université Lille Nord de France.
She is best known for her reworking of the Freudian theory of the ego ideal and its connection to primary narcissism, as well as for her extension of this theory to a critique of utopian ideology.