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Les rêves de et selon Maurice Halbwachs. La science publique et l’intime partagé d’un sociologue

2008; University of Strasbourg; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/revss.2008.1161

2107-0385

Jacqueline Carroy,

Emile Durkheim and Sociology

The dreams of and according to Maurice Halbwachs. The public science and shared privacy of a sociologist This article is mainly based on a text by Maurice Halbwachs published posthumously (1946) in which he quotes and analyses several of his dreams noted down between 1920 and 1941. The content lies at the crossroads of several stories, recounting how the dream was appropriated on an intellectual level and how psycho-analysis was received in France, and also recalling his family and professional story intertwined with historical events. Through his attempt to understand the mechanisms of dreaming, in part inspired by psycho-analysis, Halbwachs aims to set up a sort of memorial that is both private and public. He rebuilds a happy family background in small cameos while evoking different types of mourning linked with the two world wars. As a backdrop to his explicit sociological theses on the dream which separates the private world by night from the social world by day, Halbwachs seems to practise a collective psychology stemming from his dreams, which differs somewhat in that he socialises the accounts and analyses of his nocturnal visions in various ways.