Anne Dufourmantelle
Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
Education and career
Dufourmantelle was educated at Brown University and at Paris-Sorbonne University, where she earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1994. She practised psychoanalysis and was a professor at the European Graduate School and a contributor to the French daily newspaper Libération.
Her philosophical work focused on risk taking, which she argued was essential, saying that "absolute security - like 'zero risk' - is a fantasy" and that "eal danger must be faced in order to survive". Her book Éloge du risque or Praise of Risk was published in 2011. Dufourmantelle was also a professor of psychoanalysis at The European Graduate School.
Death
She died on July 21, 2017, at Pampelonne beach in Ramatuelle near the city of Saint-Tropez, while trying to rescue two children caught in the Mediterranean when the water became dangerously turbulent. The children were rescued by lifeguards and survived, but Dufourmantelle could not be resuscitated. Dufourmantelle is survived by her partner Frédéric Boyer and three children. Her daughter is French singer-songwriter and composer, Clara Yse. Yse's debut EP, Le Monde S’Est Dédoublé, released in 2019, was written about Dufourmantelle's death.
Honours
Dufourmantelle won the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne from the Académie française in 1998.
Works
De l'hospitalité, with Jacques Derrida, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1997 La Vocation prophétique de la philosophie, Éditions du Cerf, 1998La Sauvagerie maternelle, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2001, édition poche 2016 Le Livre de Jonas, with Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Bayard, 2001Parcours : entretiens avec Anne Dufourmantelle, with Miguel Benasayag, Paris, Amazon Media, 2001Une question d'enfant, Paris, Bayard, 2002 Blind Date : sexe et philosophie, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2003 Du retour : abécédaire biopolitique, A.Pandolfi, 2003Negri on Negri : in conversation, Taylor & Francis, 2004 Procès Dutroux : penser l'émotion, Paris, ministère de la Communauté française, 2004American Philo, with Avital Ronell, Paris, éditions Stock, 2006 La Femme et le Sacrifice : d'Antigone à la femme d'à côté, Paris, Denoël, 2007 Fighting theory, with Avital Ronell, Université de l'Illinois Press, 2010 Éloge du risque, Paris, Payot, 2011 Dieu, l'amour et la psychanalyse, with Jean-Pierre Winter, Paris, Bayard Jeunesse, 2011 Intelligence du rêve, Paris, Payot, 2012 En cas d'amour : psychopathologie de la vie amoureuse, Paris, Rivages, 2012 ;Puissance de la douceur, Paris, Payot, 2013 Se trouver, with Laure Leter, Paris, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2014 L'Envers du feu, Paris, éditions Albin Michel, 2015 Défense du secret, Éditions Payot, 2015