The Birth of Divinity and of Insanity Is the belief in the existence of a transcendent being a mere «God delusion » , as devoid of any real referent as the ravings of the mad ? For Durkheim, such a being truly does exist in the shape of the totality of individuals, transcendent with respect to those who compose it. Here we will analyze certain Vedic myths which provide a glimpse of how a divinity is born out of the collectivity, and we will compare these myths to the accounts of patients suffering from nascent psychosis in order to suggest that even the ravings of the mad are not devoid of any real referent : they reflect the identification of the individual with the totality of other human beings. This identification is based on universal ...
The sociological theory of the religion of E. Durkheim, despite the past tense, remains an important...
Divine ontogenesis and enunciative structures (the illocutionary creation of Agni in the Rigveda) ...
It is a striking feature of philosophical reflection on the self that it often ends up being revisio...
The Birth of Divinity and of Insanity Is the belief in the existence of a transcendent being a mere ...
The last article devoted to Siewerth showed us the metaphysical relationship between God and the wor...
Certain themes in the delusions of psychotics have puzzled clini-cians and anthropologists of this s...
The representations appear in all types of mythology in forms which come more or less from the devil...
Visions occur in many religions. In contrast to the former spontaneous trust in visions, many in mod...
Le culte du démon dans l’Hindouisme et le Bouddhisme n’est pas une négation de Dieu ou de la religio...
In the Phaedrus, Plato speaks of various forms of madness having a divine origin, and bestowing virt...
In Durkheim's works the notion of the holy progressively acquires an importance it does not have at ...
The nonspecific concept of “madness” has been there for thousands of years. In antiquity, people tho...
Comment comprendre le fait que la réalité délirante du schizophrène puisse à la fois être marquée pa...
The monist school of Advaita Vedānta, the "official" philosophy of Hinduism, when dealing with the r...
Bernard Delhaume : The idea of god in deschamps. This idea is reinserted in a comprehensive survey ...
The sociological theory of the religion of E. Durkheim, despite the past tense, remains an important...
Divine ontogenesis and enunciative structures (the illocutionary creation of Agni in the Rigveda) ...
It is a striking feature of philosophical reflection on the self that it often ends up being revisio...
The Birth of Divinity and of Insanity Is the belief in the existence of a transcendent being a mere ...
The last article devoted to Siewerth showed us the metaphysical relationship between God and the wor...
Certain themes in the delusions of psychotics have puzzled clini-cians and anthropologists of this s...
The representations appear in all types of mythology in forms which come more or less from the devil...
Visions occur in many religions. In contrast to the former spontaneous trust in visions, many in mod...
Le culte du démon dans l’Hindouisme et le Bouddhisme n’est pas une négation de Dieu ou de la religio...
In the Phaedrus, Plato speaks of various forms of madness having a divine origin, and bestowing virt...
In Durkheim's works the notion of the holy progressively acquires an importance it does not have at ...
The nonspecific concept of “madness” has been there for thousands of years. In antiquity, people tho...
Comment comprendre le fait que la réalité délirante du schizophrène puisse à la fois être marquée pa...
The monist school of Advaita Vedānta, the "official" philosophy of Hinduism, when dealing with the r...
Bernard Delhaume : The idea of god in deschamps. This idea is reinserted in a comprehensive survey ...
The sociological theory of the religion of E. Durkheim, despite the past tense, remains an important...
Divine ontogenesis and enunciative structures (the illocutionary creation of Agni in the Rigveda) ...
It is a striking feature of philosophical reflection on the self that it often ends up being revisio...