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Record 1 2010-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

... polypsychism, a term coined... by Durand(de Gros) who posited a system involving an "ego-in-chief" and a "legion of subegos"(each with its own consciousness)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Par exemple, Durand de Gros (1867) s’insurgeant contre le «dogme de l’unité indivisible et absolue de l’être humain» [...] fut l’un des premiers théoriciens du polypsychisme : «[...] la physiologie et la médecine, la psychologie et la morale se sont accordées jusqu’à ce jour à regarder l’homme comme une unité vivante, sentante et pensante, entièrement compacte et irréductible [...] Or, de nouveaux faits semblent venir aujourd’hui nous démontrer que cette croyance est une erreur; que l’être humain est, en réalité, une collection d’organismes, une collection de vies et de moi distincts».

Spanish

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