Alice Cherki (born 1936 in Algiers, Algeria) is an Algerian psychoanalyst practising in Paris. She has written a number of books, including Frantz Fanon: A Portrait which is based on her personal recollections of working with Fanon in Algeria and in Tunisia.[1]
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Biography edit
Cherki was born in 1936 into a Jewish family based in Algiers. Her father was a cereal merchant.[2] Her exclusion from the French School for being Jewish during World War II marked the beginning of her political awakening. During her medical studies, she campaigned for the independence of Algeria.[3] After attending one of his lectures, she joined, in the middle of Algeria's war, the team of the psychiatrist and thinker Frantz Fanon, then head doctor of one division of the psychiatric hospital of Blida-Joinville.[2][4] At the age of 20 she married Charles Géronimi, a close associate and friend of Fanon. They were later divorced.[5] In 1957, she began to study psychiatry in Paris before taking refuge in Tunis[6] She became a junior doctor in Manouba clinic and later received a grant from the temporary government of the Algerian Republic to finish her studies in East Germany.[6] She returned to Algeria on the eve of its independence in 1962.
In 1964, she established herself in Paris to finish her psychiatric training as well as starting in psychoanalysis, while regularly visiting Algeria.[6] In the course of her career, she published numerous papers and a number of books dealing with issues such as alterity, immigration, the transmission of trauma.[7] In 2007, she received the Œdipe price for her book "La Frontière invisible, violences de l’immigration (Editions Elema) in which she draws a link between her psychoanalytic practice and her political experience.[8] Her biography-testimony of Frantz Fanon, published in several languages, highlights the singular parcours of this West Indian psychiatrist, well known for having emphasized the psychologic effects of colonisation on colonists and colonized.
Main publications edit
- Mémoires Anachroniques, Lettre à moi-même et à quelques autres, Ed. de l'Aube, 2016
- Frantz Fanon: portrait, Seuil, 2000
- La frontière invisible : violences de l'immigration, Ed. des Crépuscules, 2009
See also edit
- Résistantes, documentary of Fatima Sissani, France-Suisse, 2019, 1 h 16 min (see bibliographic record of general catalogue BnF)[a]
Notes edit
- ^ Released in 2017 under the title Tes cheveux démêlés cachent une guerre de sept ans; with testimonies of Eveline Safir Lavalette, Zoulikha Bekaddour et Alice Cherki.
References edit
- ^ "Frantz Fanon: A Portrait (review)". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ a b Gaele Sobott (2015-16) (22 November 2016). "la dignité est essentielle". Interview with Alice Cherki.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Alice Cherki: l'éveil politique". A voix nue, France Culture. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Alice Cherki: Fanon et Utopie". A voix nue, France Culture. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Guy, Martin (2004). "Revisiting Fanon's Life, Times, and Thought". African Studies Review, vol 47 (3).
- ^ a b c "Alice Cherki: la lutte pour l'indépendance et l'inquiétude". A voix nue, France Culture. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Karima Lazali, (2007). "Alice Cherki : "La frontière invisible" Violences de l'immigration". Dans Figures de la psychanalyse 2007/2 (n° 16), pp.307-309. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Introduire l'histoire dans la psychanalyse". Dans L'Autre 2011/3 (Volume 12), pp. 256-265. Retrieved 15 March 2019.