Sartre y la psicología

Estando ya en la imprenta el presente número del Anuario, me llega la sugerencia de redactar una breve nota en memoria de Jean-Pau1 Sartre. Naturalmente se trata de evocar la obra de Sartre en relación a la Psicologia. Actualmente es posible cursar la carrera de Psicologia en cualquiera de nuestras Facultades sin haber hecho una sola referencia al autor o a su obra. No vamos a analizar ahora el porqué de esta omisión que afectaria igualmente a otros muchos autores marginados de la Psicologia Académica. Nos limitaremos a nuestro objetivo, esbozando unos pequeños apuntes, en la esperanza de poder ampliarlos en otra ocasión con mas detenimiento tal como Sartre y el tema 10 merecen

Compte-rendu de Jean-Luc Pinol (dir.), Histoire de l'Europe urbaine

International audienceCompte-rendu de Jean-Luc Pinol (dir.), Histoire de l'Europe urbaine, t. I, De l'antiquité au XVIIIème siècle, genèse des villes européennes, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2003, 965 p., par Patrick Boucheron, Xavier Lafon, Jean-Yves Marc, Denis Menjot, Maurice Sartre, Olivier Zeller, avec la collaboration de Marc Boonet. II. De l'ancien Régime à nos jours. Expansion et limites d'un modèle, 889 p., Guy Burgel, Odile Goerg, Xavier Huetz de Lemps, Jean Luc Pinol, François Walte

Jean-Pierre Boulé, Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities

Esce in una collana relativamente giovane, “Berghahn Monographs in French Studies”, preceduto da un altro studio su Sartre Against Stalinism di Ian H. Birchall, questo Sartre di un noto specialista di studi sartriani, cui si devono tra l’altro un Sartre médiatique (1992) e la cofondazione della Society for Sartrean Studies. Uscito nell’anno del centenario, questo libro giunge a puntino, in un momento di bilanci, per una più lucida ed approfondita indagine di ciò che fu l’uomo Sartre in rappor..

Jean Améry, Commemoration and Comparative Engagement

2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Jean Améry’s collection of essays dealing with his experiences at (and in the aftermath of) Auschwitz entitled Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne: Bewältigungsversuche eines Überwältigten. Translated into English as At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities, Améry’s collection immediately set a standard for philosophical accounts of the camps that even today remains unchanged. More uncompromising than the texts of Wiesenthal, Levi, Borowski, and Wiesel, Améry’s collection philosophically explores the extreme limit of the survivor’s experience in the camps as well as the ensuing trauma of living in its wake.

Cognition and the development of fear

It is significant that most sources of childhood and later fears identified by various investigators can be broadly categorized in terms of a general tendency to fear the very strange, especially when it is closely associated with the familiar, and that a key factor influencing whether or not an object or situation will arouse fear is the amount of control which is felt in its relation. The prospect of pain, for instance, which according to G. Stanley Hall' "puts to life the question of its very survival or extinction, complete or partial", was reported by C.W. Valentine to have produced surprisingly little fear in the children he tested as long as if was roused in circumstances under the child's own control, in an expected form, and in a familiar situation. It is, of course, the type of control supplied by our knowledge and expectations about our surroundings (Sartre's "hodological map" or the mental construction of reality created in the course of an individual's numerous experiences with his milieu which is at the base of Piaget's assimilation- accommodation model of the cognitive system) which is challenged or removed when we are faced with the very strange or the uncanny. For the human infant, as with many animals, strangeness elicits alarm: sudden noise, loss of support, jerky movements, quick changes of luminescence, and objects that rapidly expand or advance will cause an infant to show signs of distress. But what constitutes "strangeness" and the methods of coping with it will also change with the child's developing awareness and understanding of its environment.peer-reviewe