Anne Dufourmantelle
French psychoanalyst and philosopher (1964–2017)
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Education and career
Dufourmantelle was educated at Brown University and at Paris-Sorbonne University, where she earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1994. She practised psychoanalysis and was a professor at the European Graduate School and a contributor to the French daily newspaper Libération.
Her philosophical work focused on risk taking, which she argued was essential, saying that "absolute security - like 'zero risk' - is a fantasy". Her book Éloge du risque or Praise of Risk was published in 2011. Dufourmantelle was also a professor of psychoanalysis at The European Graduate School.
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Personal life
Her partner was Frédéric Boyer and she had three children. Her daughter is French singer-songwriter and composer, Clara Yse. Yse's debut EP, Le Monde S’Est Dédoublé, released in 2019, was written about Dufourmantelle's death.
She died on July 21, 2017, at Pampelonne beach in Ramatuelle near the city of Saint-Tropez, while trying to rescue two children caught in the Mediterranean when the water became dangerously turbulent. The children were rescued by lifeguards and survived, but Dufourmantelle could not be resuscitated.
Honours
Dufourmantelle won the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne from the Académie française in 1998.
Television
- Philosophy Masterclass for Libération (DVD, Éditions Montparnasse) : L’Amour (with André Comte-Sponville, Robert Maggiori, Michel Erman and Nicolas Grimaldi)