In a nervous, jittery country where one in three people pops psychotropic pills, Elsa Cayat, the French Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who was murdered in the Charlie Hebdo offices on January 7, was among France’s calming influences. In such books as “Desire and Whore: the Hidden Stakes of Male Sexuality” and “A Man + a Woman = What?, Cayat, who will be buried in the Jewish section of Montparnasse cemetery on January 15, tried to get past preconceptions and understand the mechanics of love-hate relationships. She also contributed chapters to “Mastering Life” and “Dangerous Childhood, Childhood in Danger?”, yet none of these proved as fateful as her twice-monthly column, “Charlie Couch,” in “Charlie Hebdo” (Hebdo is an abbreviation for hebdomadaire, or weekly). There she wrote about topics including parental authority, the “birth of the Holocaust,” and her last article for the January 7 issue of the paper, “Christmas is really a Pain in the Ass.” (Noël, ça fait vraiment chier.)
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