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Geocentrism as a Humiliation for Man

Geocentrism as a Humiliation for Man GEOCENTRISM AS A HUMILIATION FOR MAN* RÉMI BRAGUE Sorbonne University I. A text by Freud Everybody knows the celebrated essay A Diifrul!J in the Path of Psychoanalysis in which the founding father of this new approach in depth psychology explains why some people are reluctant to admit the sexual origin of neu- roses. He draws a parallel with the misgivings that some earlier scientific theories are supposed to have aroused in their opponents. In this connec- tion, he mentions two scientific revolutions with far-reaching consequences: Copernicus' heliocentric cosmology and Darwin's theory of evolution. Ac- cording to Freud, those two thinkers have a common point: both inflicted a wound that it could hardly bear to human narcissism. The former showed man that he does not live at the midpoint of the universe; the latter pre- vented him from considering himself as the high point of life. As for Freud himself, he is supposed to have shown to proud reason that she is not even the queen of her own home, that she houses in her palace a far more dan- gerous and compromising rival than imagination, whose traps classical ration- alism contented itself with exposing. In this paper, I http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medieval Encounters Brill

Geocentrism as a Humiliation for Man

Medieval Encounters , Volume 3 (3): 187 – Jan 1, 1997

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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1380-7854
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1570-0674
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10.1163/157006797X00143
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GEOCENTRISM AS A HUMILIATION FOR MAN* RÉMI BRAGUE Sorbonne University I. A text by Freud Everybody knows the celebrated essay A Diifrul!J in the Path of Psychoanalysis in which the founding father of this new approach in depth psychology explains why some people are reluctant to admit the sexual origin of neu- roses. He draws a parallel with the misgivings that some earlier scientific theories are supposed to have aroused in their opponents. In this connec- tion, he mentions two scientific revolutions with far-reaching consequences: Copernicus' heliocentric cosmology and Darwin's theory of evolution. Ac- cording to Freud, those two thinkers have a common point: both inflicted a wound that it could hardly bear to human narcissism. The former showed man that he does not live at the midpoint of the universe; the latter pre- vented him from considering himself as the high point of life. As for Freud himself, he is supposed to have shown to proud reason that she is not even the queen of her own home, that she houses in her palace a far more dan- gerous and compromising rival than imagination, whose traps classical ration- alism contented itself with exposing. In this paper, I

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Published: Jan 1, 1997

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