ABSTRACT
M Anzieu, there is a subject that we have not yet touched upon, which is nevertheless very important, not only because it is much talked about, but, what is more, because in the years to come psychologists are going to devote attention to it together with sociologists. This is the problem of ecology and the environment. A multitude of specialists and experts from different disciplines have come together in different countries of the world to protest energetically and by every means at their disposal against the pollution of the environment that is literally raining down upon us, no matter what country we live in. Have psychologists in general adopted a position in relation to this problem? As a psychoanalyst, what do you yourself think about squandering energy and spreading pollution? You may say that that is a social problem, but psychoanalysts can also have views upon social problems. What is this self-destructiveness, conscious or unconscious, which means that the laws that exist in certain countries to protect the 124environment are in no way respected either by industry or by citizens in a fairly general way? It all seems as if people were sinking into sheer wantonness in a sort of collective suicide. Could you tell us what you think about this, as a citizen and as a psychoanalyst?
