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A Typological, Distributional, And Dynamic Analysis Of The Prevention Of Birth In 400 Preindustrial Societies.

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En 1976, lorsque George Devereux publie Dreams in Greek Tragedy (dont le present ouvrage est la traduction francaise tant attendue), la psychanalyse n'a pas encore explore tous les champs du savoir et son introduction dans le domaine des etudes antiques est relativement recente: les difficultes rencontrees avant la publication du livre en temoignent. C'est que l'ouvrage est novateur: il soumet les reves des pieces tragiques conservees a une critique psychanalytique rigoureuse, il souleve un coin du voile que la tradition a bien souvent pudiquement jete sur des personnages et des situations, dont elle refusait de reconnaitre, et partant, d'analyser le caractere profondement troublant. Et voici que, de la mythologie, surgissent des individus dans toute leur apparente et monolithique simplicite exterieure, comme aime a dire George Devereux a propos d'Eschyle, une simplicite qui recele une fascinante complexite? Menelas n'est plus le mari trompe, le benet cocu de la tradition, mais un homme blesse. Oreste quitte le role paradoxal du fils qui se debarrasse froidement de sa mere sous pretexte de venger un pere qu'il n'a pas ou peu connu: son geste revet une dimension personnelle bien plus fondamentale, et n'en est que plus vrai.Si l'?dipe n'explique pas tout, si le lecteur moderne ne voit plus dans la psychanalyse la discipline susceptible de fournir une solution a toutes les enigmes de l'esprit humain, il ne peut que saluer cette tentative de gratter le vernis faussement moral de la mythologie, vernis qui dissimulait, avec leur humanite, les veritables motivations des personnages tragiques.L'ethnopsychiatre George Devereux (1908-1985), savant inclassable, a consacre les trente dernieres annees de sa vie a l'etude du grec ancien et de la mythologie grecque, dont il est devenu un des meilleurs specialistes. Il a publie en francais en 1975 Tragedie et poesie grecques.