Reflections concerning the work of Serge Lebovici

After establishing several chronological points of reference, the author, w ho was very close to Serge Lebovici during his last years of life, evokes i n this text several of the principal axes in the work of this pioneer of ch ild psychiatry and psychoanalysis (observation, fantasy, the generation of object relations, infantile neurosis, early interaction, the transgeneratio nal concept, the triad, mental representation, empathy, filiation and affil iation). The author presents his personal interpretation which emphasizes S erge Lebovici's research concerning the interrelationships between developm ent and structure.