Philippe Bouret
Philippe Bouret is a psychoanalyst in Brive-la-Gaillarde and the author of some twenty books (essays and poetry). He is a member of the SGDL (Société des Gens De Lettres – Society of Men of Letters) and directs the "Poetry in the Present" collection at DOURO publishers. He is particularly interested in the links between psychoanalysis and art. His work in the Freudian field has led him to study courtly poetry in pre-Islamic and Arab-Andalusian cultures in light of the teachings of Jacques Lacan, the work of Sigmund Freud, and the teachings of Jacques-Alain Miller. He has studied Arabic language and calligraphy. For many years, based on his experience of encounters with artists, he has been articulating what he calls "psychoanalysis in expansion," and thus defines what the position of the psychoanalyst in 21st-century society means to him: "Artists take existence seriously." They explore the unease, the enigma, and sometimes the joy of the creative process, allowing themselves to be surprised by the words, colors, and sounds that impose themselves upon them, and making use of misunderstanding as a hallmark of the speaking being. “For the psychoanalyst who approaches the artist, the one-on-one encounter awakens and expands desire. It guides engagement and sometimes reveals hidden gems. We call this knowledge. The survival of the use of living, embodied language depends on it; freedom depends on it.” Philippe Bouret has written numerous prefaces; he also draws and sculpts. He published a series of his "Encres" (Ephemerides, Ephemmeros, Women-Edge, and Women-Fold) in Romania, accompanied by bilingual texts by Muriel Augry (poet, writer, and Director of the French Institute in Iași), under the title "Encres lacérées – Cerneruli lacerate." He has also published several poetry collections and contributed to national and international anthologies. A member of the École de la Cause freudienne (ECF) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis, he was the ECF's delegate to the ACF cartels in the Massif Central region and a member of the ECF Cartels Commission from 2013 to 2015. For many years involved in the work of the Franco-Algerian Group of the Freudian Field, he was co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the journal "La Fibule" (Franco-Algerian Group of the Freudian Field). He was appointed a Member of the French PEN Club in 2017 on the recommendation of Sylvestre Clancier, Honorary President and President of the Mallarmé Academy. In 2018, he joined the PEN Club's board of directors as Vice-President of the Writers for Peace Committee and co-head of social media with President Emmanuel Pierrat.
“From childhood, when I saw my sister dance, I realized that something was happening, that it was imprinting itself somewhere within me, not on the side of the dancer, but on the side of the choreographer.” Throughout his dialogues with Philippe Bouret, Hervé Koubi unfolds what it means to him to be a choreographer. He explains, “Being a choreographer is like creating a wave on which the dancers surf. It’s a metaphor I particularly like. The wave is what is written. I don’t change the wave. It translates itself, it can break, even crash, but it has a precise, deliberate force, a form, and my dancers work with it. My role is to create waves and allow each dancer to invent, from these waves, a form of freedom.” Hervé Koubi also elaborates on his conception of the ensemble, of the chorus, when he is creating a piece. “There is an incredible power in a group. It could be birds, men and women, or even a field of wheat in the wind in May. That's what moves me deeply. Being together, regardless of gender. I've always had teams with many dancers, and what emerges from this constant is always the idea of a group, the idea of the collective, the idea of the dancing chorus.” Publication: September 1, 2025 Order Press Release
In the beginning was the word, and in the end, too, is the word. The word is, that's all. In this sense, the only subject of writing is writing, or more precisely, the only subject of the written word is the written word, the act of writing. The only subject that the word designates is the word. Through words, we access words. Through the distortion of words, we access the distortions that are necessary to speak. Otherwise, we say nothing. Publication date: September 1, 2024 Order Press release
