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With the evocative title Maintenant, il faut se quitter, in English Now We Must Part, Catherine Chabert introduces the subject of separation in a psychoanalytic frame. In the course of this deceptively slim but very dense volume, she develops the idea that separation, the capacity to separate, is fundamental to the human condition and to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Though the book stands alone, it represents an important link in a chain of publications elaborating Chabert's ideas. The theme of separation and differentiation has been addressed in the previous work of this author, including L'amour de la difference (2003a), Feminin mélancolique (2003b), La jeune fille et le psychanalyste (2015), and Les séparations: Victoires et catastrophes (2013), the last a collective work on the subject. In each volume, the author writes about the experience of separation and its importance for the construction of identity, sexuality, and appreciation of difference.
Catherine Chabert is a well known and highly respected training analyst in the Association Psychanalytique de Paris, and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Paris Descartes. In addition to her work focusing on separation and difference, she has contributed articles and books on subjects including neurosis, narcissism, depression, psychosis, otherness, and psychoanalytic interpretation of the Rorshach and the TAT. Chabert is an important figure in French psychoanalysis, known for the depth and breadth of her work, which has received wider attention from the many colloquia she has organized, and from international invitations to keynote important conferences, most recently the IPA meeting in 2019, expanding the reach of her teaching and publications.
In Maintenant, il faut se quitter, in theoretical discussion and clinical examples, Chabert examines how in all kinds of separation, whether tragic and final ruptures, as in loss to death, or in partings that are