Passing Away of Philippe van Haute Extraordinary Professor Department of Philosophy

[Emma Ruttkamp]

Good morning

It is with deep regret and unmeasurable sadness that we announce the passing away of our beloved friend and colleague, Philippe van Haute, on Sunday 6 November 2022. 

Philippe studied philosophy in Leuven, Strasbourg and Paris (PhD 1987). He received his psychoanalytic training at the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis of which he was president from 2006-2009.  He worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice from 1992 until 2016. He was a full professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) since 1992, and professor emeritus since 2021. 

He was a visiting professor at the University of Leuven (2009_2010) and at the University of Paris VII-Diderot (2018). He was a research fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (2010, 2011 and 2013) and writer in residence at Birkbeck college, London, UK (2014). 

He published mainly on contemporary European philosophy and on the relation between psychoanalysis (psychotherapy) and philosophy. Monographs in English: Against Adaptation. Jacques Lacan's Subversion of the Subject (Other Press 2002), (with Tomas Geyskens) Confusion of Tongues. The Primacy of Sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi and Laplanche (Other Press 2004), (with Tomas Geyskens) From Death drive to Attachment Theory. The Primacy of the Child in Freud, Klein and Hermann (Other Press 2007), (with Tomas Geyskens) Towards a non-oedipal Psychoanalysis. Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the work of Freud and Lacan (Louvain University Press 2012), (with Ulrike Kistner and Herman Westerink) Sigmund Freud. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The 1905 Edition (Verso 2016), (with Herman Westerink) Reading Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality". From Pleasure to Object (Routledge, 2021).

Philippe was an integral part of the Department of Philosophy at UP in various roles for decades, and for the most recent decade, as our extraordinary professor. He cared genuinely for all students and worked tirelessly to empower students not only at UP, but also at other universities in South Africa and across the continent, most recently in Senegal. It is impossible to convey the immenseness of his loss. 

We send our deepest love and sincere condolences to Lut, his wife; and their sons, Eyob and Dawit; his other family; his friends; his students; and his colleagues across so many different domains globally. 

Go well Philippe, you will always be in our hearts and our minds.

Department of Philosophy, UP

Prof Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem  Professor and Head: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities Ethics of AI Lead: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR)  Rapporteur: UNESCO World  Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)  Full Member: International Academy of the Philosophy of Science (AIPS) Associate Editor: Science and Engineering Ethics  Member of Editorial Board: Synthese Library Series

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[John Patrick Giddy]

Thank you Emma. What a generous and creative academic – I stayed with him in Leuven during a research visit he had organized for myself and Pravasan Pillay at Nijmegen. Very sorry to hear this.

Patrick Giddy

 

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