Litterature et medecine: reflexions sur la perte de memoire dans la demence de type alzheimer en general, et d'un etre cher en particulier

Abstract

Memory problems that are linked either to old age or to different kinds of dementia including Alzheimer’s, create important societal problems therefore for doctors and neurobiologists. If fundamental research explores cerebral cellular lesions with subtlety, then the question of care (of taking care) of each individual patient remains whole, and it is necessary to learn, in chronicity, to invent ceaselessly in order to maintain a link and scraps of subjectivity. A continued affirmation of life, against the forces of death. The writer Pierre Pachet offers us a genuine celebration of languages, while remaining very close to his mother, and the philosopher Catherine Malabou endeavours to highlight how a certain destructiveness can sometimes be creative of something else.