Dorothée Legrand is a researcher in philosophy (CNRS) affiliated to the Husserl Archives (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Sciences et Lettres de Paris). She is also a psychologist psychoanalyst (IHEP - Institut des Hautes Etudes en Psychanalyse), and practices in private practice and with exiled people with the associations MigrENS and Le Chêne et l'Hibiscus. Since 2014, she leads the seminar "Articulations philosophiques et psychanalytiques" at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. She is the author of Ecrire l'absence - Au bord de la nuit, published by Hermann in 2019.