“Feminine anxiety”: the famous psychoanalyst Colette Soler in a conference in Montpellier this Friday, May 24

Colette Soler donnera une conférence à Montpellier ce vendredi 24 mai. Editions Nouvelles du Champ lacanien

The conference will attempt to explain whether women still experience more anxiety than men by mixing philosophy and psychoanalysis.

A big name in his field. Colette Soler, 87 years old, university associate in philosophy and doctor in psychopathology, opted for psychoanalysis after her meeting with Jacques Lacan.

The one who teaches today within the framework of the Lacanian field in France and internationally where she regularly gives seminars and who is very active in the transmission of her knowledge, will give a conference in Montpellier this Friday, May 24 at the Espace Pitot on a rather specific theme: "Feminine anxiety."

"I accepted the invitation of a group from our association "the’School of psychoanalysis of the Champ Lacanien forums& ;quot; which develops teaching and training activities for young psychoanalysts, specifies Colette Soler. 

Central anxiety in psychoanalysis

As Dominique Touchon Fingermann, a psychoanalyst in Nîmes, explains, anxiety occupies a preponderant and even central place in psychoanalysis.

The philosopher Kierkegaard who conceptualized anxiety because for him, faced with the inaccessible absolute truth, man can only anguish. Man having no certainty that his choices are the right ones, but having to choose, this obligation is a source of anguish.

The latter asserted in his time that women were more anxious than men. But the question that Colette Soler asks herself in view of the evolution of our society is: "Is he still right ?"

"In fact for centuries we have been wondering about this affect of the& rsquo;anxiety. It is to remind us that I mentioned Kierkegaard, but in psychoanalysis, where we do not do philosophy, we are confronted every day with the anxieties of the people who speak to us. And sometimes it’s even the major reason for their coming", explains the psychoanalyst.

And to complete: "The question therefore arises from the beginning of how we conceive it, what is its cause, how we respond to it, and Sigmund Freud too although Jacques Lacan each developed a doctrine of this affect that is so truly human.

Before concluding: "And no doubt, male/female differences were seen from the start regarding this affect. I have therefore been interested in it for a long time and I wrote a work entitled What Lacan said about women. I therefore come back to it in a context which has changed a lot with the evolution of our societies."

She will therefore present her remarks on the subject this Friday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at the Espace Pitot, Salle Nogaret, Place Jacques Mirouze in Montpellier. Entrance: 10 euros, 5 euros for students.