Maryse Choisy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maryse Choisy

French writer & journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1903

Place of Birth: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1979

Profession: writer, journalist, essayist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Maryse Choisy

  • Maryse Choisy (1903–1979) was a French philosophical writer, journalist and founder of the journal Psyché.
  • Born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz Saint-Jean-de-Luz on February 1st, she was brought up by her rich aunts in a historical castle in the Basque country.
  • After the end of the First World War, she went to study at Girton College, part of the University of Cambridge.In 1927, she sought psychoanalytical treatment from Sigmund Freud and upon recounting an anxiety dream to him Freud apparently concluded, correctly, that she had been an illegitimate child.Choisy was a critic of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto saying that it was based on a misunderstanding of Freud's concept of the unconscious mind and as a response to the Surrealist Movement, she published her "Manifeste Surridealiste" in Les Nouvelles littéraires on the 22nd October 1927.
  • It can also be found in her novel Mon Coeur dans une formule: C6 H8 (Az O3)6. After meeting Pierre Teilhard in 1938 she converted to Catholicism and began to connect science, religion and psychoanalysis in her work.
  • Her role in the founding of the journal Psyché (1946) reflected her concerns with the "ideals of the Roman Catholic church".
  • She went back to receiving psychoanalysis from René Laforgue in this period.
  • Her most controversial work was Un mois chez les filles which literally means 'A month among the girls' however when it was published in 1961 in English in the United States the titled changed to Psychoanalysis of the Prostitute.
  • Choisy attempted to characterise sex workers as more human than in previous literature and avoided "moralising or...aestheticism".She received multiple awards in her lifetime including the National Order of Merit, a silver medal of Arts, Lettres, et Sciences, and the Lamennais Prize in 1967.

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