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Pudeur, un lieu de liberté
Monique Selz

In our society, in which consumerism is taken to extremes, possessing and constantly acquiring ever more consumer goods would seem to be the primordial interest of each citizen. Developing the market requires flaunting everything, as consumers need to see what they want to purchase. That is what they are told, anyway. Granting that, then modesty would seem to be obsolete, no longer current. But can a society stay human in those conditions? Isn’t modesty one of those areas that provide access to freedom? Monique Selz’s reflections, rooted in her psychoanalytic practice, draw an outline of modesty and show its fundamental role in allowing each of us to live out our singularity within the collectivity. When individuals are exposed to the risk of confusion, via a loss of differentiation and the abolition of distance, the being is in danger.

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  • Publication date : 07/03/2003
  • Size : 11,5 x 19,0 cm, 154 p., 12,15 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-01932-0
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