Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Hist Behav Sci. 2024 Jul;60(4):e22329. doi: 10.1002/jhbs.22329.
Michel Jouvet (1925-2017) is one of the most important figures in the contemporary history of the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, and one of the most awarded French researchers of the last century. Yet this former CNRS gold medalist and winner of the Cino Del Duca World Prize remains little known-not to say unknown-outside the field of sleep medicine, especially in non-French-speaking countries, where the name of his American counterpart, William C. Dement, is more familiar. Often reduced to his experiments on cats and the discovery of what he called "paradoxical sleep," Jouvet left behind a rather unique body of work that includes not only countless publications on sleep and dreams-neurophysiological as well as ethnological and psychological-but also major contributions to clinical medicine, two novels and an impressive collection of personal dream accounts and drawings, which now make it possible to explore the nocturnal side of the last 50 years of his life. This article draws on unpublished archives to illuminate all these little-known and unknown aspects of Jouvet's life and work, highlighting his hidden links with 19th-century scientific oneirology and bringing to light its paradoxes.
米歇尔·朱维特（Michel Jouvet）（1925-2017 年）是当代睡眠与梦境神经科学历史上最重要的人物之一，也是上世纪获奖最多的法国研究人员之一。然而，这位前法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）金奖得主和奇诺·德尔·杜卡（Cino Del Duca）世界奖得主，在睡眠医学领域之外鲜为人知——更不用说在非法语国家了，在那里，他的美国同行威廉·C·德门特（William C. Dement）的名字更为人所熟知。朱维特常常被人们简化为他对猫的实验和他所谓的“反常睡眠”的发现，而他留下了相当独特的著作，其中不仅包括无数关于睡眠和梦境的出版物——神经生理学、民族学和心理学——而且还对临床医学做出了重大贡献，此外还有两部小说和令人印象深刻的个人梦境记录和画作集，这些作品使人们现在可以探索他生命的最后 50 年的夜间生活。本文利用未公开的档案，阐明了朱维特生活和工作中所有这些鲜为人知和未知的方面，突出了他与 19 世纪科学oneirology 的隐藏联系，并揭示了其悖论。
