Béla Grunberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Béla Grunberger

Hungarian-French psychoanalyst

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1903

Place of Birth: Oradea, Bihor County

Date of Death: 25-Feb-2005

Profession: psychiatrist, psychoanalyst

Nationality: Hungary, France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Béla Grunberger (22 February 1903 – 25 February 2005) was a Franco-Hungarian psychoanalyst known for his 1969 work L'univers contestationnaire, written with fellow IPA member Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, under the joint pseudonym 'André Stéphane'.
In this book, the authors postulated that the left-wing rioters of May 68 were totalitarian Stalinists, and proffered the hypothesis that they were "affected by a sordid infantilism caught up in an Oedipal revolt against the father".Notably, Lacan mentioned this book with great disdain.
While Grunberger and Chasseguet-Smirgel were still cloaked by the pseudonym, Lacan remarked that for sure none of the authors belonged to his school, as none would stoop to such a low drivel.
The authors in turn accused the Lacan School of "intellectual terrorism".