Anne Dufourmantelle - Videos

Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst, author and publisher, talking about hospitality under compassion and violence. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses the gesture of hospitality in terms of foreigners and host countries which turns the idea of hospitality into a political event; she also discusses the difference between the foreigner and the Other, Jacques Derrida's law of hospitality, the etymology of hospitality, hostility and host, the host as potential enemy, illegal immigration, absolute hospitality, exchange, Emmanuel Lévinas and true hospitality, Michel Foucault, hospitality and madness, Wilfred Bion and wild thoughts giving hospitality to madness, the right to belong somewhere, hospitality as an experience (épreuve) rather than concept, hospitality as the pre-condition to life - the mother's womb, hospitality and death and the experience of mourning, the question of border and limit, Jan Pato?ka's night of hospitality, societal laws of hospitality and the foreigner, Thomas Moore's Utopia, the political utopia's placelessness opening the possibility of human cosmopolitanism, utopia's acknowledgment of the other, creating time for hospitality, the semantic constellation of hospitality, the test, murder and hate, the crypt, hospitality as an event, hospitality under the violence of radical ethics, and unconditional hospitality. European Graduate School EGS

Anne Dufourmantelle in a joint lecture with Avital Ronell talking about their book Fighting Theory. In this lecture they discuss the act of writing as fighting, war zones, the psychiatry of war, British wartime psychiatrist WH Rivers, the embodiment of the other in trauma zones, the multifaceted body, the fight complex, Immanuel Kant's abandoned text on perpetual peace, the devaluation of theoretical and philosophical work, theory bashing, the state murder of Socrates, the insurrection philosophizing and theorizing implies, daily warfare, military music, Heinrich von Kleist and his "mil-literary" strategy, Sigmund Freud's Rat Man, the koan, the test, the master and the disciple. Part I. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the non-relationship between sexuality and philosophy in the Baroque era and seventeenth century. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses neurosis, literature, the illusion of truth, the symptomatology of consciousness, sadism, masochism, sexual freedom and the psychoanalytic conception of a cure in relationship to Peter Sloterdijk, Miguel de Cervantes, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Marquis de Sade and René Descartes focusing on Don Quixote, desire, trauma, sublimation, the animal, the infinite body, the political subject and the Other. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the non-relationship between sexuality and philosophy. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses the history of philosophy, the relationship between body and soul, Christianity, Greek tragedy, consciousness and the limits of language in relationship to Michel Foucault, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Soren Kierkegaard, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle, Maurice Blanchot and Avital Ronell focusing on desire, drive, hubris, emotion, the autonomy of the self, speech, thought and obsession. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about what it means to risk life. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses the ideology of security, libido, the Lacanian discourses, the mirror stage, the super-ego, consciousness and the dialectic of master and slave in relationship to Leo Tolstoy, Hegel, Immanuel Levinas, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein focusing on desire, dependency, negativity, the uncanny, being lost, self-recognition and fear. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about hospitality of the insanity of the mind. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses madness, the uncanny, psychoanalysis, the spectrum, the phantom, political acts and art in relationship to Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and the Bible focusing on unfamiliarity, otherness, death, the haunted subject, forgiveness, the idiot, Jonas and the whale. European Graduate School EGS