PULSE Book Event "Here and Now of French Psychoanalysis" with Rachel Boué-Widawsky, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, and Sophie Mendelsohn

Here and Now of French Psychoanalysis: a conversation with contemporary French psychoanalysts

(Routledge, 2024) provides a window into the French contemporary psychoanalytic landscape through the voice of experienced psychoanalysts from different theoretical horizons who are actively transforming the field. This book underscores the specificities of French psychoanalysis and explores how the psychoanalytic community has responded theoretically and clinically to global crisis, such as the pandemic, the impact of climate change, or to racial and gender issues. Behind the label of “French psychoanalysis” diversity speaks for itself through the personal experiences, the singular voices and styles of each author. These personal narratives rightfully remind us that psychoanalysis is not reducible to a set of skills. In addition to the variety and the personal touch that these interviews candidly express, they also underscore the underpinnings and the tenets of what can still be labelled as French psychoanalysis with its historical intellectual and theoretical Freudian legacy.

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Rachel Boué-Widawsky is a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is the Director of Respecialization Program and Faculty at IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research). She is the Editor of the Foreign Books Reviews of JAPA (Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association) and Associate Editor of IJP (International Journal of Psychoanalysis). Author of The “Here and Now” of French Psychoanalysis: Conversations with Contemporary Psychoanalysts, Routledge (2024), she has also published numerous articles on French psychoanalysis. Her most recent contributions are “Perversion, Sublimation and Ethic” The American Imago (2024), “Maternal Eroticism or the Necessary Risk of Madness”, in Eroticism, (2020) and “Maternal Eroticism and the Journey of a Concept in Julia Kristeva’s work”, The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva, (2020). She is also the author of several books in French on literary criticism, especially on Nathalie Sarraute.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center. She chairs the IPA Child and Adolescent Committee, COCAP, and is co-founder of Pulsion Institute. She published on infantile depression, the process of representation, playfulness, and psychosomatics issues. Most recently, she co-edited with the COCAP “The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families,” and with Vaia Tsolas “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw” in 2023.

Sophie Mendelsohn practices psychoanalysis in Paris. She co-founded the Collectif de Pantin, which uses psychoanalytic tools to address issues arising from coloniality and post-coloniality, in particular racism, and the intersections between gender and race. With Livio Boni, she co-authored La vie psychique du racisme. 1. L’empire du démenti, published in 2021 by La Découverte. They also co-edited Psychanalyse du reste du monde. Géo-histoire d’une subversion, published in 2023 by La Découverte. She has also written many articles on the interweaving of psychoanalysis, gender, art, and politics.