INTERVIEW – The psychiatrist who invented the concept of resilience publishes a new paper and explores our endless need to adapt in The Two Faces of Resilience.
Madame Figaro. – How do you read the fabulous answer of Alain Delon, who died this summer? Chetan : “Everything must change so that nothing changes” ?
Boris Kirulnik. – A big fan of this movie, I know this famous phrase well. It was, in a way, the maxim of the director, Luchino Visconti, a Communist of the aristocracy, who represented his torments; embrace the change i.e welcome the uneducated common people to maintain their privileges. The sentence was part of this particular moment in Italian political life.
The psychoanalyst you are interested in is interested in change that is commensurate with life…
Everything that is alive changes. Due to the lifeless block of ice on the planet billions of years ago, the planet experienced alternating cycles of glaciation and warm periods. After their appearance, the plants changed, the animals changed, the people changed and those around them…
Source: Le Figaro
