Michelle Morin Odic
University of Paris VI, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, FrancePresentation Title:
The little prince of saint exupery: A mourning work
Abstract
Antoine de Saint Exupery writes The Little Prince in 1943. He lives in New York with his wife Consuelo. He draws little fellows on table cloths and napkins and his editors suggest him to write a tale for children illustrated by him. The Little Prince is the story of a little fellow coming from an asteroid, who becomes the friend of an aviator who crashed in the desert with his plane just like Saint Exupery. The little fellow dies at the end of the tale, bitten by a snake and returns to his asteroid. I. asked myself like Freud for Gradiva, if Saint Exupery had not lost a brother or a friend in his childhood. Yes he did, like Jensen the author of Gradiva, the story of a young girl who relives in Pompei. The tale of the Little Prince repeats a great friendship of the childhood and is a morning work.
Biography
Michelle Morin-Odic, Ph.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and psychosomatician, born in Washington D.C. to French parents. Although English is her first language, she is fully bilingual in French and English. She moved to Paris at the age of five and later spent three years living in Tampa, Florida (1986–1989) with her husband and two children. In addition to her clinical and academic career, she has pursued opera singing as a passionate leisure activity for over forty years.
Dr. Morin-Odic began her medical training with an internship at HIUP in Paris (1968–1970) and completed her thesis in diabetology in 1972. From 1972 to 1985, she worked as a psychotherapist at the Dejerine Psychosomatic Center (Élan Retrouvé) in Paris. She earned her CES in Psychiatry from CHU Broussais - Hôtel Dieu, University Paris VI, in 1980, with a clinical focus on borderline personality disorders. Between 1986 and 1989, she was affiliated with the Tampa Psychotherapy Group in Florida. From 1990 until 2011, she maintained a private psychosomatic practice, specializing in dermatological conditions (such as eczema, psoriasis, and alopecia) and neurological disorders (including multiple sclerosis and acoustic neuroma).
Her scholarly contributions include a range of publications in both psychoanalysis and art interpretation. Notable works include Don Juan: his imitators, victims, accusers, and his creators (Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe, 2017); Love and art creation: Rodin and Camille Claudel (AJPN, 2018); Anaïs Nin: an incest between father and daughter (AJPN, 2019); The libertine Carmen, a female Don Juan (AJPN, 2020); and The Golden Pavilion of Mishima: story of a fire-lighter (International Journal of Psychiatry Research, 2020). Her more recent works include Mrs. Dalloway, a path towards Virginia Woolf’s unconscious (AJPN, 2023), and two books: Creation in Art and Literature (L’Harmattan, 2017) and The Work, a Royal Path to the Unconscious (L’Harmattan, 2022).
Dr. Morin-Odic has also actively participated in numerous academic and psychoanalytic congresses across Europe. Her presentations have addressed a wide range of topics exploring the intersections of psychoanalysis, literature, visual arts, and music. Highlights include: Between dream and creation (Liège, 2000); Iris’ visions: pictorial works expressing unconscious fantasies and affects (Luxembourg, 2004); The child and the spells: Colette and Ravel’s anguish (Dijon, 2007); Van Gogh between creation and delusion (Paris, 2007); Artistic creation: an illusion game between perception and representation (Paris, 2011); The myth of Don Giovanni (Paris, 2016); and Disquieting strangeness in Ingmar Bergman’s movies (Paris, 2016), among many others.
Through her clinical practice, writing, and lectures, Michelle Morin-Odic has contributed extensively to the field of psychosomatics and psychoanalytic interpretations of artistic creation.
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