Alain Vanier
Alain Vanier is a psychoanalyst. He is a member of Espace analytique (A.F.P.R.F.) and Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (NYC) ; Professor Emeritus, Paris Cité University; former Director of the Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (CRPMS), IHSS, Paris Cité University; former teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris ; former Hospital Psychiatrist ; author of numerous publications (over 350 articles in French and international journals and collective works; four books translated into over a dozen languages, including Lacan, NYC, Other Press, 2000; 7 editors of collective works).
September 2025Special Report
OUR GAZE : THE MISSING OBJECT
The gaze is a missing object. The gaze is a movement of the soul, an ontological movement—a gaze towards the object, towards the work of art, towards the Other too. It's not a Bergsonian movement of time, it's a movement in space, without moving, and this lends itself very much to architecture. In particular, we were talking about time and how, in the end, looking is not just an ocular action, but also a bodily action: the body looks into a museum.
