Etiket: Plaat
The eclipse of April 8 in the eyes of Nathalie Plaat
Today it will, for a rare time, be placed for us right in front of the one who dictates our days, our collective overactivity, our daily life. It will be…
Nathalie Plaat, cultivating a taste for the Other
Our columnist Nathalie Plaat publishes this month Chronicles of an outstretched hand published by Somme tout/ The duty. Here is an excerpt. Before my illness, I thought of myself not…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] The child-territory | The duty
Of all the roles I have had to inhabit in my lifetime, the most elusive, disturbing and surprising has undoubtedly been that of stepmother. As we publish some of your…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] I write to you in the middle of white noise
I was going to write to you about something quite different. I had a plan, a list, ideas that were organized around a theme and that fit into a rhythm,…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Mirror, mirror, tell me who’s the best parent?
Last week, I launched, under my column, a first call for stories about your parenthood. Once again, you have offered me these little pearls of humanity, these glances that are…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] hit bottom
I read you. All week, by the dozens every day, I received you in my mailbox. As if lying on that imagined couch between us, deposited in complete confidence, in…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] The void
The book was at the bottom of a box, waiting there for years, after it had finished its little work of symbolization with my son. The voidAnna Llenas’ youth album,…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Tame the Beast
In the middle of a bridge, in the middle of the night, we can make out a giant cage, with, inside, a huge beast. We think we recognize a bear…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Do we have the life “coaches” we deserve?
The title of this column is a nod to this absolutely delicious article by Roland Gori and Marie-José Del Volgo: “Each society has the psychopathology it deserves”, published more than…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Chronicle for airport
“What are we, indeed, what is our character, if not the condensation of the history that we have lived since our birth” – Henri Bergson You will excuse me, I…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Back to Rennes
I stayed a little too long in front of the house. I was facing the fences that demarcated a construction site, a vast new beginning erasing what, for so many…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Talismans and other “white pebbles”
The measure of my age, of my inescapable distance from all these realities which, it seems to me, were still in the palm of my palm so little time ago,…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] What empties us
Think back to this woman who, session after session, tirelessly repeated: “Every day, I get up with the impression of having a dead elephant on my back. The image had…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Mental health, a transpartisan issue
Touched on during the previous debate, the issue of mental health finally had its airtime in the debate last Thursday. First to respond, the leader of the Conservative Party, Éric…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Carmant, Generous and Winnicott
I cannot say who, the artist, the shrink or the citizen, conducted this interview with the candidates of the current election campaign on the subject of mental health. Obviously, I…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Back to school, ritual or compulsion?
It is not new that the slope is slipping, slowly but surely, towards a significant increase in a certain rigidification of the regulations, frameworks and other standardizations of the living…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] The rosary of the unexpected
In 2020, when in sync with the rest of the world, my life held its breath long enough for me to doubt what was next, I took out my rosary.…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Blood and tears
They practice a profession which is not quite one, or which, certainly, goes beyond this denomination. Is it really a profession to know how to “hold a whole space”—in the…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] A human face to those who suffer
I almost choked on my coffee at first, as you can imagine. The sip of this Monday morning was difficult to pass, when I read the article “A unique session…
[Chronique de Nathalie Plaat] Talking about mental health with teenagers… without DSM
I spent my last weeks with them. Some mornings, I will not hide it, while the sequence of gestures commonly grouped under the term “routine” was becoming more and more…