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Elsa Cayat: The only woman killed in the massacre.
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Subject: Elsa Cayat Dear Friends, I'm often silent on list servs these days, but couldn't help but notice this woman. Does anyone know her? Elsa Cayat, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was the only woman killed in the massacre. She wrote a twice-monthly column for Charlie Hebdo entitled 'Charlie Divan' - 'Couch' - and published essays on relations between men and women and sexuality. As trained clinicians, We spend our days (and evenings) with aspects of life about which most don't know. I'm imagining the excitement Elsa Cayat felt about publishing her column. There is a subversive promise inherent to the translation of intimacy into shared discourse. It is really important to know what people authentically experience instead of only how experiences are represented publicly. I don't know if I would have even liked her or her work but I very much applaud her att...