Marie Bonaparte

(1882- 1962)

Great-granddaughter of Napoleon emerged as one of the most outstanding psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. Due to the influence of her father studied mathematics, physics and physiology. After the first war she published her first text entitled "Military Wars and social wars," in which she analyzed the impact of war on the behavior patterns of societies.

 She was a disciple of Freud in Vienna, and developed her theory of female sexuality based on that nature created woman in itself, but endowed with a virile component juxtaposed she called the "bisexual status of women".

One of her most important works is "Monologues of life and death, female sexuality; Introduction to the theory of instincts. " She wrote stories, poetry and began working to organize the French psychoanalytic movement, recording comments Freud, writing essays and psychoanalytic training as a psychoanalyst. In 1926 he founded the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and in 1934 inaugurated the Institute of Psychoanalysis.