Catherine Clément


Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and studied under such luminaries as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva.
She lived many years overseas, as her husband, :fr:André Lewin|André Lewin, was a diplomat who was France's Ambassador to India, Austria, Guinea, Gambia and Senegal.

Novels

dernière édition entièrement remaniée Le Livre de poche, « Biblio essais », 1985
"Le Divan et le Grigri" + Tobie Nathan, Odile Jacob, 1998