Author's Interviews

I gave a long interview to the Swiss Radio & TV, The interview was sponsored

by the Swiss Society of Authors. The journalist was interested by my most recent

poetry book "Apperception" which she read. The questions concerned mainly

the manner and style in which I wrote about the pandemic right during the very

first confinement in March 2020. I said that my book was a defense against the

pandemic, our accrued vulnerability in which it left us, and my increased state

of easily recollected dreams during the confinement. After writing about my dreams

in the book, I learned, through workshops in psychoanalysis, that most of us

began to dream vividly during the confinement. Patients related their dreams

to their analysts with all their details. I interpreted this phenomenon as the result

of our increased vulnerability and interdependence which we disliked because

of our education that encourages independence and individuality. I think

the authors' interviews are an important tool to convey our thoughts and emotions

about the facts of life and our experience but one must be cautious not to make

the interview into a narcissistic experience based solely on oneself. The interview

will be kept in the Society and the video will be sent back to me so I can add

it to my webpage.