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100 1  Dufourmantelle, Anne,|eauthor. 
245 10 In defense of secrets /|cAnne Dufourmantelle. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bFordham 
       University Press,|c2021. 
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520    Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In 
       an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In
       Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits 
       relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and 
       philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an 
       attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her 
       work lives on, though, in this provocative and necessary 
       book. Through etymologies and case studies, personal 
       history and incisive commentary on contemporary society, 
       In Defense of Secrets returns us to the fundamental 
       psychic scene of the secret. The secret, for 
       Dufourmantelle, is not a code to be cracked or a firewall 
       to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that 
       permits relation and that ensures our humanity. Tracking 
       the secret though art and literature, philosophy, 
       psychoanalysis, and sociology, from the Inquisition to the
       present, Dufourmantelle's writing spirals around the 
       question of the secret's value. In our age, when political
       and personal transparency seem to be prized above all--
       lives posted on the Internet, information leaked, whistles
       blown, taboos absent except with respect to the secret 
       itself-- In Defense of Secrets champions what remains 
       hidden, private, veiled, hushed, just out of sight. The 
       secret is on the side of nature, not science; organic 
       growth, not technology; love's generosity, not knowledge's
       graspages For Dufourmantelle, the secret is a powerful and
       dynamic thing: deadly if unheard or misused, perhaps, but 
       equally the source of creativity and of ethics. An ethics 
       of the secret, we can hear her say, means listening hard 
       and sensitively, respecting the secret in its secret 
       essence, unafraid of it and open to what it has to say. 
650  0 Secrecy|xPsychological aspects. 
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