Jean-Pierre Lebrun, a Namur psychoanalyst, is famous among his peers.
His best-known thesis is this: our society has become so democratic that its members, "
devertebrates
", anxious above all to be quiet, would shun the exceptional places which imply authority, responsibilities, in short "
negativity
".
He attributes this aveulation to the disappearance of the function of the father, confused with the patriarchal function, swept away with it.
In Un filthy without limit (Erès), published in 2020, he is intelligently worried - even if he does not deprive himself enough of psychoanalytic jargon - the difficulty that the new generations have in confronting the limits of life on this Earth.
Le Figaro.
- What is the “filthy limitless” that you denounce in your book, 25 years after denouncing “a limitless world”?
Jean-Pierre Lebrun.
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A taxi driver recently told me his embarrassment in the face of the disorders of the world: "
Sir, I have three daughters, and I no longer know what to do with me.
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