Interview with Jean-Michel Oughourlian

Mimetic desire
At ISU TV program, an interview with Jean-Michel Oughourlian professor emeritus of clinical psychopathology at the University of Paris and former director of the psychiatric department of the American Hospital of Paris. In this interview, Jean-Michel Oughourlian back on mimetic desire in man, confirmed by the neurosciences and their theory of mirror neurons. Jean-Michel Oughourlian also explains the processes that are causing the violence, but also why the sacred is something fundamental in humans.

Co-authored with René Girard of the book “Things hidden since the foundation of the world,” Jean-Michel Oughourlian is also the author of “A mime Named Desire” mimetic theory that develops into a psychological methodology. He has also just released his latest book “psycho-” published by François-Xavier de Guibert. You can meet the author for a cocktail reception with book signing April 15 from 18h to 21h at the Juilliard Bookstore: 229 Boulevard Saint Germain 75007 Paris (metro Solferino).