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In Defense of Secrets

Pocket
Engelsk
In Defense of Secrets
In Defense of Secrets
  • Forfatter: Anne Dufourmantelle
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 160
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780823289233
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Dufourmantelle, Anne
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Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize

In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity.
Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her work lives on, though, in this provocative and necessary book. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history and incisive commentary on contemporary society, In Defense of Secrets returns us to the fundamental psychic scene of the secret. The secret, for Dufourmantelle, is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity.
Tracking the secret though art and literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology, from the Inquisition to the present, Dufourmantelle¿s writing spirals around the question of the