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Place of Birth: 9th arrondissement of Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Yvonne Allendy
- Yvonne Allendy (3 September, 1890 - August 23, 1935) was a French women's writer and art critic. She was born Alice Yvonne Nel-Dumouchel in Paris on September 3, 1890.
- She married René Allendy, a homeopathic doctor on November 19, 1912.In 1922, she and her husband set up the Groupe d'études philosophiques et scientifiques pour l'examen des idées nouvelles, at the Sorbonne.Yvonne was treasurer of the Théatre Alfred Jarry, set up by Antonin Artaud, at the end of the 1920s. She co-wrote Capitalisme et Sexualité (Capitalism and sexuality; 1931) with her husband.Using the pseudonym of Jacques Poisson, she published several articles discussing the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
- In "Littérature moderne et psychoanalysis" she analysed various avantgarde examples of art and literature encompassing the work of Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, Philippe Soupault and Blaise Cendrars.
- She was greatly interested in cinema, stating this new field should be concern to researchers of the unconscious psychic apparatus, which also dominates drama.
- She claimed that the cinema introduced the means to clearly reproduce the thought-images in a way that matched their rapidity.
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