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Anne Dufourmantelle

Power of Gentleness

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Dufourmantelle, a major French philosopher and as a psychoanalyst, recently died while trying to rescue children at the beach, and her death has received an extraordinary outpouring of grief in both the Anglophone and Francophone media.
PsychoanalysisPsychologySocial ScienceGender Studies
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87 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
Translators
Katherine Payne, Vincent Sallé
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  • Cristina Gonzaleshas quoted10 days ago
    When they are not despised, the gentle are persecuted or sanctified. We abandon them because gentleness as power shows us the reality of our own weakness.
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    • Cristina Gonzaleshas quoted9 months ago
      is all of this simultaneously without being any one of these elements more than the other.
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      • Cristina Gonzaleshas quoted9 months ago
        true enemy of gentleness is … gentleness. Fake gentleness, mawkishness, this passivity sold to us via every New Age commercial technique, of relaxation or of an overused meaning of “zen.”
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