A reporter for the Alger républicain in 1945, he met Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre and the latter entrusted to him the management of the magazine Les Temps modernes from 1951 to 1956. He wrote the critique of The Rebel, which eventually led to ending for good the relationship between Sartre and Camus.
He became acquainted with Emmanuel Mounier, who in 1948 opened for him the doors of the magazine Esprit, where there was a certain 'philocommunism' and who facilitated his entry into the intellectual seraglio of the post-war period. Mounier also invited him to the reading committee of the Éditions du Seuil and recommended him to its literary director, Paul Flamand. At the death of Mounier in March 1950, Jeanson took over the direction of the series "Écrivains de Toujours".[2]
Beginning in 1957, at the height of the Algerian war, he put his anti-colonial ideals into practice by creating the Jeanson network to transport funds to the National Liberation Front of Algeria. This clandestine network of militants was disbanded in 1960. Fleeing abroad, Francis Jeanson was tried in absentia, convicted of high treason, and sentenced in October 1960 to ten years' imprisonment.
He returned to Paris on the occasion of his amnesty in 1966, then worked with the Théâtre de Bourgogne (directed by Jacques Fornier) and was in charge of prefiguring the cultural policy of the Maison de la culture in Chalon-sur-Saône (1967–1971). He proposed and elaborated through this experience the notion of "non-public", which will be resumed in May 1968 in the Declaration of Villeurbanne, of which he was the main editor.
Solicited by psychiatrists, he then led interventions for an open psychiatry, a psychiatrie du sujet, ("psychiatry of the subject") and created in particular the SOFOR (Sud Ouest Formation Recherche), which developed training activities for caregivers.
1997: Une exigence de sens (three conversations with Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard), at Le Bord de l'eau [fr]
2000: Sartre, Seuil
2000: Entre-deux, entretiens avec Christiane Philip, Éditions Le Bord de l'eau
2001: Notre guerre, Berg International [fr] - ISBN 2911289358
2004: Quelle formation, pour quelle psychiatrie ? Vingt ans d'expérience de la SOFOR. Erès, ISBN 978-2749203621. Collective work under the direction of F. Jeanson.
2005: La culture pratique du monde, avec Philippe Forest et Patrick Champagne, Editions Cécile Defaut 2005
2008–2009: Escales, inédits, Éditions Le Bord de l'eau
About Francis Jeansonedit
Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Francis Jeanson. Un intellectuel en dissidence de la Résistance à la guerre d'Algérie, Berg International Editeurs, Paris, 2001, 286 p.
Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Francis Jeanson: A Dissident Intellectual from the French Resistance to the Algerian War (Palo Alto, Stanford UP, 2008) ISBN 978-0804755085.
Itinéraire d'un intellectuel engagé, documentary film directed by Catherine de Grissac and Bernard Vrigon of the APDFJ.
Les valises du professeur Jeanson, biographical essay by Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard, Éditions Ovadia [fr], 2015
^Jeanson, dissident de la gauche intellectuelle, Marie-Pierre Ulloa
^Francis Jeanson et la revue Esprit 1. Entre Sartre et Mounier. Les intellectuels et la guerre d'Algérie Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, Marie-Pierre Ulloa, esprit.presse.fr, 16 mars 2012
Jeanson appears under the pseudonym "Alexandre" in Maurienne's book Le déserteur, a book forbidden when it was published in 1960, reissued in 2005 by Éditions L'Echappée.
External linksedit
- Vidéos de Francis Jeanson par Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard
- SOFOR : Francis Jeanson a fondé cette association en 1984
Francis Jeanson, itinéraire d'un intellectuel engagé documentaire de Catherine de Grissac et Bernard Vrignon réalisé en 2011 published by Mediapart in 2015
Francis Jeanson pose ses valises on Libération '(4 August 2009)
Francis Jeanson on Encyclopedia Universalis
Francis Jeanson: Un juste qui sauva l'honneur de la France on Alterinfo.net
Francis Jeanson on INA.fr (19 July 1955)
Francis Jeanson, un mécréant qui s’est mêlé de psychiatrie on CAIRN