Bouvier (Pierre), Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon. Portraits de décolonisés. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2010, 280 p. – ISBN 978-2-251-90003-2

The social psychiatry of Frantz Fanon.

Frantz Fanon, a black psychiatrist, was both concerned with human liberation and committed to a cult of violence. His own life exemplified the lack of gratification in practicing a psychiatry focused on the individual in a social milieu where the glaring ills were not intrapsychic fantasies but real problems of poverty, racism, and colonialism. Fanon’s experience in denouncing a bourgeois psych...

251-280 Peeters Aug 05

In 3 studies and 2 pilot experiments, the author examined whether attending to the subjective status of mental representations would affect the ways humans view representational contents. The author found that simple drawing tasks were executed differently depending on whether or not the subject of the drawing was defined as a mental content (belief, imagination, perception). The results challe...

Histories of Discoveries of Continuations: Belles-Lettres with Equivocal Tenses

The early sixties saw conventional labels \got rid of", and then reintroduced in a nuclear variant that was hoped to be so awesome that they would never be used again except for exceptions. But guilt-free remote control of dangerous instruments was already undermining the entente. This note is a very personal view of, and from, the rst half of that decade, with very close horizons. But there is...

Joël Coste, Les Ecrits de la souffrance: la consultation médicale en France, 1550-1825 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014), pp. 272, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-87673-973-4.

This book by Joël Coste tries to fill a gap in the medical historiography of Early Modern France. Indeed, studies specific to medical correspondence are extremely rare; it is what makes the book all the more invaluable. A specialist of the consilia, the epistolary consultations which date from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, Professor Coste has produced a new, quality volume which wi...

La Gestion de la Diversité Linguistique dans les Villes Africaines/Management of Linguistic Diversity in African Urban Cities, Gabriel Mba & Etienne Sadembouo (Eds.). (2012), L’Harmattan, ISBN 978-2-296-99091-3