2 Quotes & Sayings By Rene Cassin
René Cassin was born in Paris in 1902. He was a journalist by profession and a great admirer of James Joyce, but then his interest turned to psychology. In 1935 he enrolled in the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, where he obtained a doctorate. An introduction to Freud's work led him to abandon his training as a psychologist and become a psychoanalyst
In 1939 he became a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and later joined the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and a founder of the French Psychoanalytical Union, which is now an international association.