Author name: Pierre Musso

Pierre Legendre (1930—2023) was a renowned French intellectual. As a psychoanalyst, Legendre was a member of the École Freudienne de Paris, founded by Jacques Lacan. His work was interdisciplinary, spanning law, psychoanalysis, history, philosophy, and anthropology3. He founded and directed the European Laboratory for the Study of Filiation and developed a unique intellectual framework he termed "dogmatic anthropology." He was critical of totalitarian systems of thinking and was concerned with understanding the foundations of law, religious phenomena, filiation, and the structures of state and management.