Clotilde Leguil

Clotilde Leguil
Clotilde Leguil
Born	1968 Paris
Occupation	Psychoanalyst

Clotilde Leguil, Born Clotilde Badal in 1968 in Paris is a French psychoanalyst and philosopher, university professor in the Department of Psychoanalysis at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Biography

Family

She is the daughter of Jean Badal. She grew up in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where she completed her secondary education at Lycée Henri-IV, followed by literary preparatory classes at Lycée Fénelon, where one of her teachers was Pierre Raymond.

Formation

She became a certified philosophy teacher in 1992 and is an alumna of the École normale supérieure of Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (class of 1988). In 2010, she defended a doctoral thesis on the relationship between the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre and that of Jacques Lacan, under the supervision of Pierre-François Moreau at ENS Lyon.

Career

A psychoanalyst, she is a member of the School of the Freudian Cause and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. In 2013, she co-led a course titled Lacanian Subversion of Gender Theories with Fabian Fanjwaks within this framework.

In 1995, she co-authored a Que sais-je? book on Contemporary Ethical Thought with Jacqueline Russ, and in 1998, she co-wrote a high school philosophy textbook for Bordas editions. She also contributed to The Anti-Black Book of Psychoanalysis (2006) with Jacques-Alain Miller, in 2006.

She wrote the prefaces for several reissues of Sigmund Freud's texts at Seuil in 2010 and 2011.

Leguil has authored an essay on femininity through several female figures in cinema, as well as an essay on the representation of psychoanalysis in cinema, particularly through the lens of the American series In Treatment.

In an opinion piece published in Le Monde in 2019, concerning "The New Philosophy Curricula" proposed by Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, she highlighted the disappearance of the key concept of thought itself: "the subject," along with "consciousness and the unconscious." She viewed this reform as regressive, arguing that it sought to erase an essential reference to everything that escapes science and even religion.

Since her first essay Les Amoureuses (2008), up to L'ère du toxique (2023), and including Céder n'est pas consentir (2021), Leguil has reflected on the shadowy areas of intimacy through the lenses of philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Since 2023, she has been a co-producer of the podcast L'inconscient on France Inter.