Françoise Hivernel (14 June 1943 – 29 August 2022) was a French-born academic archaeologist, psychoanalyst, writer and translator.

[2] Hivernel worked first as an archaeologist in France where she belonged to the National Scientific Research Centre, Laboratory of Quaternary Geology.

As part of research towards her PhD, she excavated in Ngenyn, a site initially discovered by Louis Leakey.

Don’t we all live in a mirage, that of our imagination, forever reaching for something that we can never attain – something that keeps temptingly eluding us and therefore spurs us on?

Hivernel wrote extensively on archaeology and psychotherapy and was published in an array of academic journals and books in both French and English.