“Keep calm and carry on”.
Keep calm and carry on.
This slogan of the British government dating from the very beginning of the Second World War, and advising not to panic in the event of an invasion, has sixty years later become a watchword displayed on our t-shirts, posters and other mugs.
Success obliges, it gives rise to parodies: “Keep calm and drink coffee”, “Keep calm and be in love”.
Keep calm and drink coffee.
Keep calm and be in love.
Stay calm… in all circumstances?
Easy to say.
“We have an ambivalent relationship to calm
,” observes Gaëtan Cousin, doctor of psychology and co-author with Konstantin Büchler of the book
Du calme
(Odile Jacob).
On the one hand, we see it as a panacea, attracted by the idea of an Olympian calm, a serenity that would be absolute and would lead us, like Zen monks, to sublimate our existence.
“But on the other side
, he continues,
we are looking for an ever more hectic life, intensity being highly valued today…
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