This lecture will consider the phenomenon of fear from a philosophical as well as from a psychoanalytic point of view, and will go on to analyze our society's dependence on fear as a motivation--a fear often fostered in the name of an alleged need for "security." The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Avital Ronell (University Professor of Humanities and Chair of Comparative Literature at NYU).
Anne Dufourmantelle holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and teaches both philosophy and the history of psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. A practicing psychoanalyst, she is also the author of seven books in the fields of psychoanalysis and philosophy, as well as, with Jacques Derrida, De l'hospitalité (2007,); with Antonio Negri, Du retour (2002); and, with Avital Ronell, Fighting Theory (2010). Her latest book, Puissance de la douceur (Payot, 2013), will be published in English translation by Fordham University Press in Fall 2015.
Anne Dufourmantelle holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and teaches both philosophy and the history of psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. A practicing psychoanalyst, she is also the author of seven books in the fields of psychoanalysis and philosophy, as well as, with Jacques Derrida, De l'hospitalité (2007,); with Antonio Negri, Du retour (2002); and, with Avital Ronell, Fighting Theory (2010). Her latest book, Puissance de la douceur (Payot, 2013), will be published in English translation by Fordham University Press in Fall 2015.