ABSTRACT
At the end of 1968 I joined Alain Touraine’s sociology laboratory, later renamed the Centre for the Study of Social Movements. At the start of the 1970s, Jean-Max Gaudillière and I undertook a research project called “Madness and the Social Link”, which was the topic of the weekly seminars I mentioned earlier. Our field of research was the psychiatric hospital where we eventually became psychoanalysts. Thus, our seminars took place at the crossroads of these two disciplines. But why had we embarked on this particular path? We could not have said.
