Monique Schneider is psychoanalyst and member of the Société de psychanalyse freudienne. She is Directrice de recherche emerita at the CNRS. She is the author of Le paradigme féminin (Flammarion, 2006), Généalogie du masculin (Flammarion, 2006), La cause amoureuse. Freud, Spinoza, Racine (Seuil, 2008), and, most recently, La détresse. Aux sources de l’éthique (Seuil, 2011).