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Journal Article
The childhood of reason: Pedagogical strategies in Descartes's La Recherche De La Verite Par La Lumiere Naturelle
1996
Overview
[...] despite the traditional opposition between Descartes and Freud, the persistence of the child in the adult and consequently of the irrational in the rational might indicate that these two thinkers can be set in a different relation to each other, the confusion of the effects of 'raison' and 'autorité' being an early gesture towards what will later be theorised as transference. [...] one can find the attempt to articulate the passage from child to adult, irrational to rational in several literary and critical texts of the seventeenth century.24 For the literary texts, one could cite the explicit didacticism of Molière's comedies, aimed at reintegrating the 'déraisonnable' to the norm of reason and propriety; at the same time, these plays, especially the later ones, also show up the limits and paradoxes in this process (L'Ecole des Femmes is but one example).
Publisher
Duke University Press
