Arènes, Jacques <br/><br/>
The “wear and tear” of collective time. A reflection on cultural anthropology 

 -  2024.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Uncertainty is at the heart of a contemporary cultural work in a register where individual temporality – that is to say the way in which the human psyche deals with time – finds itself in difficulty due to “the wear and tear” of collective time. This article thus analyzes, from a perspective of cultural anthropology informed by psychoanalysis and by the phenomenological approach to temporality (notably that of Ludwig Binswanger and Eugène Minkowski), the way in which the crossing of “the thickness of times”, according to Péguy’s formula, would still be possible, even if the future proves difficult to “bear”. It is then a question of thinking about a “pathic” dimension of existence, compatible with a certain psychoanalytic determinism, and of nevertheless recognizing its creative inventiveness right to the heart of the accidents and bifurcations of life. Examples from psychotherapeutic support rest on the theoretical contribution.