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Simon Harel
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Simon Harel is a Canadian intellectual. In addition to being a prolific writer and speaker and an adjunct professor at the Département d'études littéraires of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he is full professor at and Director of the Département de littérature comparée of the University of Montreal.
At the end of the 1970s, Simon Harel pursued graduate studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). While working with such professors as Madeleine Gagnon, he developed a keen interest in psychoanalysis, particularly in the works of Catherine Clément, Jacques Lacan, and René Major.
In 1981, after his M.A., Simon Harel moved to France with the purpose of working on his PhD at the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII. However, he arrived in Vincennes a few months after the dissolution of the École Freudienne de Paris. Simon Harel then obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies at the Unité d'enseignement et de recherche de littérature française et comparée at the University Paris VII Diderot before undertaking, under the supervision of Julia Kristeva, a PhD in Humanities. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 1986, is entitled "L'écriture de la psychose dans les textes de Rodez d'Antonin Artaud". The interest that Simon Harel has for psychoanalysis deepened during his academic studies. Although he knew the works of the French psychoanalysts (Jacques Lacan, Serge Leclaire, and René Major) very well, he was greatly interested in English psychoanalysis, particularly in the reading that the French thinkers and writers did of the theories of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and Donald Winnicott.
From 1986 to 1988, Simon Harel completed, under the supervision of Régine Robin, a post-doctoral degree at the Department of Sociology, UQAM. He then became an independent researcher, funded by FCAR from 1988 to 1989, when he was made an adjunct professor at UQAM. In 1993, he was promoted to assistant professor and, in 1997, to a tenured position.
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