Delion, Pierre <br/><br/>
Thinking about institutions with Jean-Pierre Pinel and others 

 -  2023.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> As a tribute to Jean-Pierre Pinel, this article sets out to provide a historical perspective, recalling how his work forms part of the “extension of psychoanalysis” advocated by René Kaës. It establishes links between some of the concepts he “invented” (functional homology, melancholic/vivifying nostalgia, institutional “incorporat”) and those of institutional psychotherapy (transference constellation in particular) but also those relating to the phoric trilogy (phoric function, semaphoric function and metaphoric function).