Of Souls and Seasons: Psycho-ecology, Boris Cyrulnik

"The impact of the environment does not have the same effect on a baby as on an adult, depending on each person's physical and mental makeup. What we are today is not what we will be tomorrow, marked, experienced, and often wounded by existence. Our bodies and minds, altered by life, will have to adapt to an ever-changing world. Men and women, fathers and mothers, see their respective places overturned by a new paradigm that upends traditional notions of masculine and feminine, and redefines the identity and role of each in couples and in families. Our culture has lost its compass; we are navigating by sight, buffeted by events, drifting wherever the wind takes us. We need to set a new course, for we have just understood that humanity is not above nature, is not superior to animals; it is part of nature. Domination, which was once an adaptation for survival, now only brings misfortune. A guiding star, however, points us in a new direction, towards the unity of Earth and the living world." B. C.