ABSTRACT
A psychiatrist, full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, and former co-director of the Jean Favreau Centre for Psychoanalytic Consultation and Treatment. Monique Cournut-Janin was instrumental in facilitating communication between psychoanalysts on an international level, in particular by organising meetings between French and British analysts. Although the author have not referred explicitly to female homosexuality here, she think she have described some of its aspects. By instituting, through the game of femininity, a loving mother-daughter complicity with regard to the father, the mother inscribes the supremacy of the paternal order and works to prepare for the little girl's future change of object. It spares no one the violence of the Oedipal tragedy, even if a certain mother-daughter complicity has been established and the mother's femininity has offered the boy's fantasies a means of playing, more or less, for a longer or shorter period, and with more or less freedom, with feminine characteristics.
