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Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.
Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix
To Risk One’s Life | 1
Eurydice Saved | 4
Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8
Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11
In Suspense | 13
At the Risk of Passion | 17
Leaving the Family | 22
Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24
Incurable (In)fidelities | 29
Zero Risk? | 33
How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36
Being in Secret | 39
Befriending Our Fears | 41
At the Risk of Being Sad | 46
At the Risk of Being Free | 49
The Time They Call Lost | 52
Dead Alive | 55
Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59
Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63
Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67
Life—Mine, Yours | 70
At the Risk of the Unknown | 72
At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74
May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79
Breaking Up | 82
At the Risk of Speech | 86
Solitudes | 89
Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93
Hope No More | 101
Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106
Risking Belief | 111
Risking Variation | 114
The Event: Hyperpresence | 119
Intimate Prophecy | 122
At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127
Desire, Body, Writing | 130
Healing? | 139
An Other Language | 142
Risking Scandal | 145
Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148
Assiduity | 151
Risking the Future | 154
At the Risk of Beauty | 158
At the Risk of Spirit | 162
Risking the Universal? | 164
Hauntings | 167
Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170
Envisaging Night | 173
Revolutions | 176
At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180
Notes | 187
