Pierre Fédida

Pierre Fédida (30 October 1934 – 1 November 2002) was a French psychoanalyst.

Biography Fédida was born in Lyon to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Catholic mother. While working on his agrégation in philosophy, which he completed in 1962, Fédida simultaneously trained as a psychologist in Lyon and Montpellier. In 1960–1962 he worked as a clinical psychologist at an army hospital in Lyon, after which he taught philosophy and educational psychology at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He then taught psychology at the University of Lyon until 1967, when he became a senior lecturer at the Sorbonne. Following the civil unrest of May 1968, he took part in the founding in the UFR of Human Clinical Sciences at Paris Diderot University. Fédida remained active there for the rest of his career; he was made a full professor in 1979 and held several important roles, including as university vice-president and director of doctoral studies. He died in Paris.