This episode features an interview with Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Professor Emerita of the Centre d'études féminines et de genre at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-St. Denis, founder of the CNRS research lab for Gender and Sexuality Studies LEGS, and affiliated Romance Studies Professor at Cornell University. Berger shares her thoughts on the status and implications of reading and writing, the links between deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and their current political relevance and challenges, and she shares her aesthetic experience of Maria Callas' interpretation of Gluck's French version of the 1774 aria "Eurydice," which lead her to reflect about loss, grief, love, and addressing an absent Other beyond the limits of gender.

References in this episode:

Colloquium "Qui a peur de la déconstruction?"
https://institut-du-genre.fr/actualites/qui-a-peur-de-la-deconstruction/#:~:text=Colloque%20organis%C3%A9%20du%2019%20au,les%20sciences%20et%20la%20culture%20%C2%BB.

France culture interview with Anne Berger on the colloquium:
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/avec-philosophie/que-reste-t-il-a-deconstruire-4307698

Anne Emmanuelle Berger, "Reading and its Discontents" OLR 44.2 (2021)

Many thanks to Kellen Corrallo for his editorial assistance.