BIG MAINTENANCE – Neuropsychiatrist to whom we owe the concept of resilience, Boris Cyrulnik wants to believe in a renaissance, in a new social contract between generations and genders within our modern society, despite the dark clouds above our world.
Boris Cyrulnik is inhabited by a perceptible joy, torn from the hardships of his childhood: born in 1937 into a Jewish family of Ukrainian origin, he narrowly escaped deportation as a child, unlike his parents.
LE FIGARO. – On the threshold of this new year, are you confident?
Boris THE CIRCULATOR. – I have confidence because I am convinced that we are heading for disaster (laughs)! The word “cata” means caesura, and “strophein” means a bend. Disaster is always a promise, in my view, of change.
What disaster are you talking about?
There are several of them. The return of the war on European soil that I never thought I would see again; the ecological catastrophe; the fight between identities, religions, ideologies, and then the health crisis that made us collectively waver.
After this type of disaster, we have three choices: either everything goes back to the way it was before, we put the same process back in place, and in three years, there will be a new virus. So, second hypothesis…
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