ROBIN (Gilbert) - Lot 253

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ROBIN (Gilbert) - Lot 253
ROBIN (Gilbert) 1893 - 1967. Child neuropsychiatrist and writer. Autograph manuscript signed "Gil Robin". S.l., November 1924. 1 ½ page in-4. Violet ink on cream vellum. Interesting literary and scientific manuscript constituting an excerpt from Voyage à Genève, intended for publication in Cahiers du Savant. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the text recounts a scene reminiscent of a psychoanalysis session, combining clinical observation and poetic meditation on the soul and childhood. The passage develops a reflection on the intimate nature of the personality, with childhood described as a "unity like a beach", marked by delicate and diffuse affections, to the point of suggesting a soul that has become a "slippery surface" on which nothing can be durably inscribed. This writing, on the border between literature and psychology, bears witness to the growing influence of psychoanalysis in French intellectual circles between the wars. Gilbert Robin, known by his pseudonyms "Gil Robin" and "Docteur G. Durtal", was one of the first French doctors to take an interest in psychoanalysis, and to meet Sigmund Freud (1928). Close to philosophical circles and the beginnings of Surrealism, he sought to broaden understanding of mental disorders beyond the strictly psychiatric framework.
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