Anne Dufourmantelle (20 March 1964 – 21 July 2017) was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
[4] She practised psychoanalysis and was a professor at the European Graduate School[5] and a contributor to the French daily newspaper Libération.
[2] Her philosophical work focused on risk taking, which she argued was essential, saying that "absolute security - like 'zero risk' - is a fantasy"[4] and that "[R]eal danger must be faced in order to survive".
[6] Her book Éloge du risque or Praise of Risk was published in 2011.
[7] She died on July 21, 2017, at Pampelonne beach in Ramatuelle near the city of Saint-Tropez, while trying to rescue two children caught in the Mediterranean when the water became dangerously turbulent.