Book Talks: La crise environnementale sur le divan
Oct 4, 2023 — 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Join us for this Education Book Talk, an initiative supported by the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the office of the Vice-Dean Governance and Student Affairs (VDGOUV) and the office of Vice-Dean Research (VDRE), to discuss author and researcher Luc Magnenat's new book La crise environnementale sur le divan.
Description
is the first French-language work of psychoanalysis to examine the place of ecology in our lives. It establishes a dialogue between psychoanalysts and ecologists.
Luc Magnenat
Guest Author
Luc Magnenat is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a teaching member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. He works in private practice in Geneva. He is a member of the editorial board of the Ann茅e psychanalytique internationale. In 2006, Luc Magnenat published a short book for the general public presenting the life and work of Sigmund Freud, entitled 芦鈥疐reud, id茅es re莽ues鈥禄 (茅ditions du Cavalier Bleu, Paris) and he has organised the publication in 2019 of 芦鈥La crise environnementale sur le divan鈥 (茅ditions In Press, Paris), an interdisciplinary work that brings together ecologists and psychoanalysts. Among other articles on our experience of the environmental crisis, he published 芦鈥"Think like a mountain" - "to think of Oedipus": a Psychoanalytic Contribution to Environmental Ethics,鈥 published in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2021, 4, 734-754. For the past two years he has been running a psychoanalytic seminar on the environmental crisis at the Centre de Psychanalyse Raymond de Saussure, Geneva.