Le format amour
Conferences directed by Jérôme Mauche.
The theme of this last event of the season, « the love format, » represents a possible link between Anne Portugal‘s subtle and elliptical poetry and Anne Dufourmantelle‘s analytical and philosophical approaches.
Without formalism or sentimentality, the theme of this evening should be understood as a welcome symptom of both knowledge and approximation, between the accumulation of propositions and the sequence of affects as may be generated by language in our existences and their standards – in turn passionate, light-hearted, or dramatic, always searching.
BIOGRAPHIES
Anne DUFOURMANTELLE
Anne Dufourmantelle is a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. She has authored many books at the crossroads between theoretical questions and clinical approaches to desire in the diversity of its contemporary forms. A distinct narration of feeling also runs through her work : De l’hospitalité, Calmann-Lévy, 1997; La vocation prophétique de la philosophie, Cerf, 1998 ; La sauvagerie maternelle, Calmann-Lévy, 2001 ; Une question d’enfant, Bayard, 2002 ; Blind Test. Sexe et philosophie, Calmann-Lévy, 2003 ; La Femme et le Sacrifice. D’Antigone à la Femme d’à côté, Denoël, 2007 ; En cas d’amour. Psychopathologie de la vie amoureuse, Payot, 2009 ; Eloge du risque, Payot, 2011. She has written many book interviews, also with Toni Negri Du retour. Abécédaire biopolitique, LGF/Livre de Poche, 2004 and Avital Ronell American philo, Stock, 2006. She’s in charge of the collaction « L’autre pensée » Stock publishing.
Anne PORTUGAL
She is a poet. She has published Les commodités d’une banquette, 1985 ; De quoi faire un mur, 1987 ; Le plus simple appareil, 1992 ; Dans la reproduction en deux parties égales des plantes et des animaux (with photos of Suzanne Doppelt), 1999 ; Définitif bob, 2002 ; la formule flirt, 2010. She’s also the author of Fichier, Chandeigne, 1992 and Voyer en l’air, L’Attente, 2001. She has also translated with Caroline Dubois, many books of Stacy Doris, notably Paramour, P.O.L publishing, 2009. Marked by seduction and terseness, Anne Portugal’s poetry reactivates the lyrical genre in its own way: with mystery and casualness.
