It's been just six years since Anne left us. And we want to remember her by evoking two evidences of great affection towards her, both coming from the French world, where there are two important centers: Grenoble - Paris, and Vouillé.
The first one is the biography “Anne Ancelin Schützenberger: Psychodrame d'une vie” by Colette Esmenjaud, Edition Desclée de Brouwer, Paris.
The author was first Anne's student, then her friend, and finally became a teacher in her turn. Her work is the result of passionate research through interviews with Anne's parents, friends and colleagues and archival documents. She was very involved in the study of these documents, which our association preserves in Turin.
This biography is a rich and detailed work of 485 pages, with a photographic insert. It expresses the esteem and affection that the author has for Anne. A work with a clean and clear style that does not give in to the risk of sentimentality. The result is an attractive book because it is simple and easy to read; at the same time, it draws us into the intellectual and emotional world of a brilliant, fascinating and complex person like Anne was.
It is the portrait of a life full of adventurous episodes, in different contexts: her departure from Russia, her life in France, the war and the Resistance against the Nazism, her studies and university career, the meeting with Moreno, her travelling around the world, and above all, her intellectual curiosity and her determination to study. Then the growing fame: from university to television, to magazines.
Anne's life was a relevant one that has had to deal with trauma and significant losses; a life that has spanned the history of a century, head held high, despite everything.
The second evidence is “Guérir de sa famille”, a theatrical show that you can see by clicking on:
⇒ https://vimeo.com/user65371084/review/818410447/63fec61456
The video recording of this piece was offered to us by our association member Michèle Bromet-Camou, a clinical psychologist and psychodramatist who worked with Anne for many years.The show is the staging of her latest book of the same name: Michèle brings Anne back to the stage, animated by the complexities that the same Michèle has to face. But Anne is not only present as a character, at times ironic, dry, stubbornly effective: she is present in the attentive gaze that the author takes on the therapeutic dynamic, on the relational roughnesses that she must manage, on the inevitable tangle of the past and present stories. Michèle chooses to expose herself by showing us the alternation of her family, social and professional roles. She takes us to her psychologist's office where we witness a story: a story of a patient, of his therapist, of a group. The style is powerful, intimate, elegant and seductive: a unique story that asks questions and does not shy away from the wounds and contradictions that emerge. Once again, it's about life finding its own way, head held high.
Anne Ancelin Schützenberger is still among us with her explicit or indirect teachings. We are grateful for these two testimonies, as precious exhortations to follow in the footsteps of the common Master, that is to refine our knowledge and our attention to the signs of human wandering.
