Pierre Janet (1859 - 1947)
Related: France - psychiatry - psychology
Concepts and themes: obsessive disorders
Featured in: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988) - Colin Wilson
Biography
Pierre Marie Félix Janet, (May 30, 1859 - February 24, 1947), pioneering French psychiatrist. He studied under Jean-Martin Charcot. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Janet [Dec 2005]
Pierre Janet and the reality function
The reality function is another term for our sense of reality. When there is no reality function, we feel bored. See The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988), Colin Wilson , pages 58 and 112, Carroll & Graff edition 1989.