Camus : la chute

This question runs through a narrative spanning five days. In a seedy Amsterdam bar, the narrator, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, confesses his story to a mute interlocutor. In Paris, where he practices the enigmatic profession of "judge-penitent," he didn't even deign to save a woman about to throw herself into the Seine. Only at the end of the story does the reader discover the true meaning of his role: to accuse himself, to paint the darkest portrait of himself.

For here, the narrator does not simply recount his life to his listener: he exposes his actions, his cowardice, and his failings. He draws us all in as witnesses, shakes our certainties, and tears away our masks.

Catherina Kiss is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Marseille. In her lectures, she uses excerpts from texts and films to explore the profound and essential relationship between art and psychoanalysis. Her references are numerous and varied: Hitchcock, Lars von Trier, Chaplin, Alfonso Cuarón, etc.

His unique and enriching journey, from his native Romania through Germany, has allowed him to become acquainted with numerous European countries and their diverse relationships to psychiatry and psychoanalysis.