Deborah turbeville casa no name6/24/2023 Roudinesco then goes on to remind us that, in her 2011 book, In Praise of Risk, Dufourmantelle drew out of a line from Hölderlin-‘where danger is, grows the saving power also’-the proposition that ‘daring to risk could be the miraculous opposite of neurosis’. Elisabeth Roudinesco’s obituary* highlights a dimension of Anne’s work that has been instrumental in my own development, namely her articulation of an ‘aesthetics of living’: ‘To take the risk of loving, to eradicate dependence in the way one lives, constitutes the ground of all ethics’. It is also a token of my gratitude for the multiple hours of intellectual high her work has procured me. This post, an extract from Blind Date that I have complemented with photographs from Deborah Turbeville’s Casa No Name, is my tiny contribution to honoring her memory. Philosopher, psychoanalyst, novelist, Anne Dufourmantelle left behind a body of work abounding in stimulating ideas when, on 21 July 2017, at age 53, she died while attempting to rescue a child drowning in the sea at Pampelonne, a beach in the South of France.
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