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Jacqueline Girard-Fr\u00e9sard is a psychoanalyst and writer. Her latest novel, <\/em>And mirror, was published last year by Eclectica. It tells the story of Pierre and Madeleine, a couple with two very different personalities. He has an obsessive need to possess. As for her, despite her love for her partner, she's not ready to negotiate her freedom. To meet.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
You're a psychoanalyst and a writer. What do you see as the link between these two activities?<\/strong><\/p>\n Certainly the pleasure of interpreting and thinking. Psychoanalysis is therapeutic work; writing is the love of words, the love of telling, the love of creating stories. The energy invested in writing relieves me, insofar as I go through a phase of total depersonalization and enter into the lives of other characters.<\/p>\n In this sense, is writing also therapeutic?<\/strong><\/p>\n It's not so much the writing itself that's therapeutic, but the energy expended in practicing it. You could compare it to jogging. Only, the energy I release when I write is not physical, but psychic.<\/p>\n So this energy is also artistic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, my writing is based on images. It's even photographic. I see places, people, and from this content I create my story.<\/p>\n Do you draw your literary inspiration from your work as a psychoanalyst?<\/strong><\/p>\n My practice of psychoanalysis leads me to reflect, interpret and delve into slips of the tongue, desires, constraints and dreams. I have to reveal all this to the patient. But this process is linked to writing. I'm not a writer on the one hand, or a psychoanalyst on the other. I am both, with a distinction between the two activities. So I make sure that my writing is not psychoanalytical, and my psychoanalysis is not literary.<\/p>\n