An Abyssal Otherness
On the basis of her personal trajectory, the author wonders how to approach the encounter between anthropology and psychoanalysis. She proposes that both disciplines may be a principle of questioning for the other and push it to reframe its own approach. The idea of the Other and the Work of culture are here considered as two mediating notions. She illustrates the heuristic potential of her proposition in relation to Indian asceticism, as an horizon to an ongoing research. She focuses on the play of de-binding and binding mechanisms in renunciation. She discusses the implications of her approach for anthropology as well as for psychoanalysis.