Institution and Passivity

by Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780810126886
• ISBN10: 0810126885
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

"Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivite: Notes de cours au College de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Editors' Note to the French Edition	p. xxxiii
Translators' Note	p. xxxv
Institution in Personal and Public History
Introduction	p. 5
Institution and Life	p. 16
Institution of a Feeling	p. 28
The Institution of a Work of Art	p. 41
Institution of a Domain of Knowledge	p. 50
The Field of Culture	p. 58
Historical Institution: Particularity and Universality	p. 62
Summary for Thursday's Course: Institution in Personal and Public History	p. 76
Endnotes for the Course on Institution	p. 80
The Problem of Passivity: Sleep, the Unconscious, Memory
Philosophy and the Phenomenon of Passivity	p. 117
For an Ontology of the Perceived World	p. 133
Sleep	p. 138
Perceptual Consciousness and Imagining Consciousness	p. 146
Symbolism	p. 151
Dreams	p. 156
The Freudian Unconscious	p. 162
Delusions: Gradiva	p. 170
The Case of Dora	p. 177
The Problem of Memory	p. 191
Appendix: Three Notes on the Freudian Unconscious	p. 199
Summary for Monday's Course: The Problem of Passivity: Sleep, the Unconscious, Memory	p. 206
Reading Notes on Proust	p. 210
Reading Notes on Freud	p. 216
Endnotes for the Course on Passivity	p. 233
Bibliography of Texts Relevant to the Courses on Institution and Passivity	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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