Le retour d’une « demi-erreur » ? De la physiognomonie selon François Dagognet à la nouvelle psychiatrie

Abstract

It’s easy to forget that physiognomony was a successful story since it seems nowadays to be Lavater’s fantasy deeply rooted in its time. Not for the philosopher and psychiatrist François Dagognet. He indeed tries to “upgrade” the physiognomony with the aim to find a new way to decipher the inner based on the outside and therefore founds a biopsychiatry. The status of the speech is of a particular interest to understand the theoretical position of Dagognet.

Keywords

• Dagognet
• Lavater
• physiognomony
• biopsychiatry
• biologization
• Johann Nikolaus Tetens