Pouvoir et impuissance

Projet intellectuel et sexualité dans le Journal d'Amiel

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ID2997490
AutoresLuc Boltanski (0000-0002-9634-1306, autor correspondente)
Ano1975
Volume1
Fascículo5
Páginas80-108
Data de publicação1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoActes de la recherche en sciences sociales (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0335-5322 • E-ISSN: 1955-2564
EditoraPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/arss.1975.2484
OpenAlexW1984790938
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas3

Power and impotence - intellectual project and sexuality in the diary of Amiel A great variety of experience tends to support the contention that there exists socially constituted homology founded upon the opposition of dominator and dominated between social structures and mental structures. This opposition reflects, on the one hand, the biologically and socially defined division between the sexes, and, on the other hand, the division of the dominating class into an industrial fraction (dominators) and an intellectual fraction (dominated). This hypothesis helps explain the system of oppositions and homologies which a child generally assimilates unless he belongs to a fraction only endowed with cultural capital. On one side of this system of oppositions, we find the paternal values, the sexual values of virility and the socially do minant values of the middle class as seen by Weber or Sombart. On the other side we find the maternal values, the feminine values and the intellectual values. In these terms, intellectual identification can, under certain circumstances, tend to weaken paternal values and to reinforce the identification with the mother and the acceptance of the values (i.e feminine values). In the same manner, an over-identification with the mother can result in the reinforcement of intellectual identification. The clinical study of the case of Amiel permits us to test these hypotheses and to analyse the dialectic relation between biological determinants and social determinants This study also allows us to identify syndrome which is at the same time social psychological and somatic. This syndrome although present in the case of Amiel in paradigmatical form is perhaps inextricably tied to the social po sition of the intellectual

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