Paul Ricœur et Eric Weil

How does Paul Ricœur apply metapsychology to collective memory?

The concept of “abused collective memory” gathers two of Ricœur’s main lines of concern: history and psychoanalysis. The article aims to explain how this convergence was possible, especially, when the transposition of the Freudian metapsychology from the individual to the collective level was hindered by the Ricœurian emphasis on the Freudian libidinal economy. Our hypothesis is that this conve...

Testimony, Memory and Solidarity across National Borders: Paul Ricœur and Transnational Feminism

In many ways, globalization created the problem of representation for feminist solidarity across the borders of the nation state. This problem is one of presenting a cohesive identity for representation in the transnational public sphere. This paper proposes a solution to this problem of a cohesive identity for women’s representation by drawing on the work of Paul Ricœur. What these women seem ...

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"Eric Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur on Memory and History"

Paul Ricoeur, Critique and Conviction We are not equal within language. There are inabilities. Take now the ability to act. It is greater among people with power. . . . There are degrees of ability, therefore. For example--and we may have to reconcile ourselves with this, including with Hayden White--this marvelous ability to narrate. Because it is universal: everybody has narrated. We are tryi...

ANALYSE Eric CANCES et Alexandre ERN Septembre 2011