TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sylla,Omar
AU  -  Platteau,Geneviève
TI  - Does the Couple’s Evolution in Africa and in Europe Allow Processes of Differentiation?
PY  - 2008///.
							
N1  - 56
N2  - This article deals with the evolution of society, family, and couple in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Such evolution occurs in the context involving complex tradeoffs between collective identity and individual emancipation. In Africa, the couple is anchored in a social group and in the family, while in Europe it presents itself as occupying a space distinct from the family and the society. In each continent, the couple modernized itself and evolved: in Africa, it emancipated itself somewhat from the family and the society while in Europe it gained more autonomy through individualization myths and counter-dependence attitudes. In Europe, differentiation processes tend to be negated in the name of equality and homogeneity, a strategy that avoids separation anxieties; these are “acted” in actual separations, rather than being “thought.” In Africa like in Europe, the couple is confronted with modernity: while tradition values the group, modernity excludes it
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-therapie-familiale-2008-1-page-43?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -