Philosopher and psychoanalyst born in Paris in 1974. She earned her doctorate in 2000 at the Université Paris-Sorbonne-Paris IV with a thesis on the metaphysics of the imagination. She is professor of Humanities and Health at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and lectures at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris. She holds the chair of Philosophy at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne de GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences.
Among others, she has published three books spotlighting contemporary thinking about care, vulnerability and resentment: about the end of courage (La fin du courage), which she adapted for the stage and presented at La Scala (Paris) in 2019; humanism in care (Le soin est un humanisme), and curing resentment (Ci-gît l’amer. Guérir du ressentiment). She writes in the weekly L’Humanité and print media like Le Monde, La Croix, Libération and Le Figaro. In 2020 she was made a knight of the French Legion of Honour.
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