"Our ability to think is being robbed", interview of Ariane Bilheran about totalitarianism
- Ariane Bilheran
- Oct 3, 2021
- 8 min read
Interview for the Belgian magazine Biotempo.
A specialist in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ariane Bilheran helps us understand the idea of "comfort health" through an observation she makes about the crisis we are experiencing today: "so many people agree to give up their freedom under the cover of a lie, without having a knife to their throat, far from it. Quite simply because many of them aspire to the preservation of their comfort and their privileges, and because they have been chained to them little by little.
If "comfort health" is a state, let us enter into a dynamic that will be that of "great health", another key concept in Nietzsche's work. Let us follow Ariadne's thread on this path. It involves great attention to words and a ceaseless quest for truth.
Ariane Bilheran is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure. She studied classical literature, moral and political philosophy, and clinical psychology. She has a doctorate in psychopathology and has a significant body of work devoted to the study of pathologies of power such as perversion, paranoia, and the suffering of alienation they cause.
She publishes on her site Chronicles of Totalitarianism in which she denounces a logic brandished in the name of health which authorizes the persecuting of caregivers, doctors, nurses and the sick.
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