title: [Through entomology to psychoanalysis].
abstract: Vues analytiques sur la vie des abeilles et des termites (Analytical perspectives on the life of bees and termites) is a letter from L. R. Delves Broughton to Freud dated the 7th of August, 1927. The letter was translated into French by Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) for the Revue Française de Psychanalyse (French Review of Psychoanalysis) in 1927. A German translation of the letter was done for the review Imago in 1928. In his letter Delves Broughton develops a captivating connection between Man's libidinal economy and that of certain social insects. His main argument is based on the readings of several works by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949). He proposes, as in the bioanalysis project of Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933), the application of psychoanalytic knowledge on a specific area of the natural sciences: entomology.
authors.affiliation: Höpital Armand Trousseau, Service d'anesthésie, 26, rue du Docteur Arnold Netter, F-75571 Paris 12. remy.amouroux@trs.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Rémy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amouroux
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history*; D004772:Entomology / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D005619:Freudian Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D020049:Isoptera; D007989:Libido; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*