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Dor, Emmanuel. "De l'éthique de l'amour à une philosophie première de la personne." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30002.
Full textStarting from a description of the experience of loving and taking into account the sources of Western philosophy (eros, philia, agape), our ethical study of the other personally loved as an end will point to some questions which require a first philosophy. By "ethics" we mean a reflection on the human act, that for which man commits himself, and on his responsibility. By "first philosophy" we mean a deeper consideration of reality and not first of all an abstraction. We will have to specify the meaning of this expression in comparison with the words "metaphysics", "ontology" and "wisdom". Among the questions requiring a first philosophy, we have selected the following ones: the question of the reality of the lovable good; the question of the proper otherness of the lovable good (does a friendship, which integrates the points of view of utility and enjoyment and goes beyond them, lead us to ask ourselves "what is the being to the friend?" and to go beyond becoming and quality as well as the subject and intelligibility?); the question of completion and the proper finality of that which is (with special reflection on dynamis, entelekheia and energeia with respect to the will, to love and to the friend); the anthropological question of the place of the other in every human person; the critical reflection on the proper intelligibility of the good; the question of the human person as "first person"
Puccini-Delbey, Géraldine. "Amour et désir dans les Métamorphoses d'Apulée : réalités, poétique, philosophie." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040231.
Full textLove, as the subject of the most of the inserted tales, may be a key to understand the global sense of the roman. Apuleius provides a moral reflexion on the human love, essentially based on insatiable desire and condemned to failure and seems at the same time to propose a solution that conciliates platonism with isiac syncretism
Liégeon, Alain. "L'amour entre philosophie et psychanalyse." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081035.
Full textThe object of this thesis is to examine, thanks to the study of major works related to the matter of love, how this category can be the subject of specific operations operations of thought. Thus, the operation which is specific to the philosophie speech about love, the decision, and the specific operation of the psychoanalytic speech, the indecision, face each other. A philosophic decision consists in favouring one way, among several ones, as for the way truth of love gives itself to thought, and rejecting the opposite way; thus every dicision of thought about love implies an antinomic decision. So as regards love, the philosopher shows himself as the author of a singular decision, which guarantees the accuracy of this this decision. In psychoanalysis, indecision regarding love consists in suspending every decision between two possibilities, a suspension which proves to be precise ly a deciding factor for other purely analytic categories. So there is no author about love in psychoanalysis, but a speech that remains accurate to the original operation of indecision which belongs to the freudian discovery. Thus this work draws four major figures of decision in philosophy, each of them beeing associated to its antinomic figure, and each couple of figures (figure of a decision-antinomic figure) being placed opposite to the analytic operation of indecision about love. This leads us to four volumes, each of which containing three chapters
Daniel, Hani. ""Les jeux sont faits" : un tournant dans la philosophie sartrienne ? /." Le Caire : H. Daniel, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37018745c.
Full textZarifi, Asmaiel. "L'amour et la haine : (Mythologie-Philosophie-Psychanalyse)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON30068.
Full textThis historical research since the origins, from the first texts written by mankind, try to recount the mind path (or way) from where these notions of hate and love emerge from sexuality and are expressed through mythology via a process both conscious but also unconscious from generation to generation. Therefore, this retrospection tries to discover the unique origin of love and hate that bursts from all humanity from historical times, and even before when a common culture was elaborated as an individual personality, transition of man toward and within temporality, symbolic and imaginary. Anaximandre, Zoroastre, Empédocle d’Agrigente, Platon, Nietzsche, then Freud and Lacan state that the emergence of Man in the dimension of temporality, and subsequently in the language, is consubstancial (or integral part of) of his emancipation from the nature, but he is compelled to pay this transition by hate and love
Benarroch, Jérôme. "Métaphysique de l'amour : pensée contemporaine et judaïsme." Rennes 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN1PH01.
Full textThis work aims at producing a doctrine of love, as a sexual human relationship, on the basis of a personal interpretation of the jewish sources (Bible and Talmud), and through confrontation with contemporary philosophical thought (E. Levinas, J. Lacan, A. Badiou). Since the questioning of the Hegelian system, the categories of philosophic thought have moved from the centrality of the One and All, to the reality of the Other. The feminine is then seen as crucial, as “what thwarts the One” (Badiou). We maintain however that the exact acknowledgement of the feminine, without skipping the Other and the non-relationship, must nevertheless initiate a renewed thought of the One. The idea maintained is thus expressed: womanhood is such that it summons to a humanization by singling out, which bears its own value, on top of becoming just, intelligent and creative, which are generally reckoned by philosophy for the future of humankind. Or else: love makes truth with human singularity, with uniqueness, and it is to this very truth that the feminine invites. Love is the unlikely invention of a relationship between a man and a woman, within the structure set by Lacan, according to which “there is no sexual relationship”. We think as well that the woman's body carries a specificity, the intimacy, that compels to a specific attachment, or relationship, that constitutes the reality of the singling out. And the child occupies then the crucial position of the One, free and stranger to the possible relationship. In the end, our doctrine sees itself as a contemporary metaphysics of love, since it sketches an ontology, in the light of the necessity of loving creativity
Tabet, Pascale. "Amour et donation dans la phénoménologie de Jean-Luc Marion." Caen, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CAEN1017.
Full textTo Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology belongs the largest possible horizon: his intuitive and prereflexive philosophy widens the field of phenomenology. The author of this book plans to explain how the erotic phenomenon as a phenomenon of saturation. A fondamental affective tonality of existence which is at the same time a border phenomenon, an excess of sense exceeding any representation of an intentionnal and reflexive consciousness, for it carries the phenomenological weight of the origin. Love demands a reduction, which cannot be understood but by a radical phenomenology of excessive donation. It is in this sense that the datum “reduced” by phenomenology must be understood – which datum is neither a being nor an object, but the sole donation which constitues the absolute immanent essence of manifestation. This research shows that the phenomenological reduction according to j. -l. Marion implies the reversal and the radicalisation of the classical phenomenology of prior thinkers such as Husserl and Heidegger. Indeed, they only focus on the essence of being, and their phenomenology remains a captive of metaphysics, inasmuch as its only horizon is still the horizon of being. The phenomenological method of Jean-Luc Marion is therefore interpreted here as a counter-method which is given to me as a counter-experience before any attempt to give it a meaning: it overcomes me with a flood of intuitions far above the concept, because it gives itself so generously. This phenomenological paradox, which Jean-Luc Marion calls “saturated phenomenon”, drives phenomenology away from transcendental ego and the intentional object, to replace them by a given ego, which receives itself from all it receives. This paradox happens with love, the ultimate condition for the possibility of the self, away from all ontic and transcendental requirement, in the sole horizon of a radical excessive donation
Moreault, Francis. "Hannah Arendt, Erôs et amour de la liberté." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070117.
Full textThe goal of this thesis is to analyse the meaning of the concept of freedom in the political thought of hannah arendt. She give two "definitions" of this concept: political freedom and freedom of thought for arendt, it's the modern revolution in the sense of rosa luxembourg who found a government where political actors participate to the public freedom. For arendt, socratic love - eros - determine, in other part, what do we do. The socratic thinking give no definition. Thus, the freedom of thought consist to understand the meaning of the concept. Thinking about freedom mean to understand the signification of political freedom and the freedom of thought in result, you cannot prouve the existence of freedom but only thinking about it
Heusch, Carlos. "La philosophie de l'amour dans l'Espagne du XVe siècle." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 1993. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00734876.
Full textBarazon, Tatjana. "Création et participation : le monde au seuil de l'être." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040191.
Full textCreation is a state between possibility and reality. The possibilities never come completely into being neither do they stay sheer potentiality. The world exists in a transitory state where everything is in a permanent process of transformation that never ceases. The creation expresses the impossibility to name what comes into being. Every single element of reality participates in this continual creative process, where each particle expresses not only its own being but also the whole universe. The creation from nothing must be understood as a dialectical process, as an infinite participation on all levels of reality. The creation of the world is the permanent interaction with its own possible developments and constant transformations of matter, eternally on the threshold of reality. Reality can never be static it is caught in a never-ending creative process that reaches its culmination in love, where we discover the only true creation of a radically unknown world
Béthery, de La Brosse Arnould. "Entre amour et droit : le lien conjugal dans la pensée juridique moderne (XVIe-XXIe siècles)." Poitiers, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007POIT3010.
Full textMarital union is the perfect expression of a human bond and love. It is historically at the heart of Law known as being the science of human relations. It is a perfect example of the world’s order symbolised through the union of man with God. The science of Law, seen as a science of bonds, allows to integrate this transcendent dimension and also to establish a logical link as regard friendship. Modern judiciary thought comes to break this harmony. From the Renaissance, Law is no longer seen as a fair exchange but seen as an individual right. Marriage becomes quickly secularized and progressively a matter of human intervention. The “Code Civil” sees marriage as a consequence of the legislator’s rule. Nowadays, taking from the State rule over family matters, marriage is only a consequence of subjective passion. Hence the history of marital bond from the Renaissance is only that of a notion losing its substance: one can only with difficulty think of a union based on the individual
Gravel, Caroline. "Relation virtuelle, amour virtuel : quelle place pour l'amour véritable?" Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/30027.
Full textL'omniprésence relativement nouvelle du virtuel dans la société contemporaine appelle à s'interroger sur son utilisation croissante dans les rapports humains. Pour plusieurs, l'écran, en tant que porte d'accès au monde, favorise les rencontres et les contacts. Certains affirment même tomber amoureux en ligne. Mais cet amour virtuel correspond-il à l'amour véritable? On ne peut tenter de répondre à cette question sans au préalable faire ressortir les traits essentiels de l'amour, tel que vécu et comme en témoignent les meilleures oeuvres philosophiques. L'amour, soutient-on, est désir du bien de l'autre; il nécessite l'amour de soi; il amène à vouloir être près de l'être aimé; il exige une reconnaissance mutuelle; et il vise une personne concrète et autre que soi. On le décrit également comme étant inconditionnel, durable, incontrôlable (c'est lui qui nous contrôle), toujours pauvre et irrationnel. Que signifient et qu'impliquent ces caractéristiques? Surtout, les retrouve-t-on toutes dans les relations d'amour virtuelles? Force est de reconnaître que plusieurs aspects des relations médiatisées semblent rendre impossible le développement d'un amour véritable. L'écran ne supprime pas la distance : on ne peut y rencontrer l'autre puisqu'il ne peut être effectivement présent. Du fait de cette absence, la communication est appauvrie et le contact est d'une bien moindre qualité, d'autant que, l'interlocuteur étant voilé, il peut mieux mentir sur ce qu'il est, tout comme on peut bien davantage se tromper dans la représentation que l'on s'en fait. En outre, le virtuel, en particulier par le biais des sites de rencontres, pousse à adopter une vision de l'amour incompatible avec l'amour authentique : on le conçoit comme étant contrôlable, analysable et conditionnel. L'être aimé serait considéré comme un objet utile à la jouissance et dont il faut se départir lorsqu'il ne convient plus afin de passer à une autre relation. Est-ce là de l'amour?
Laumonier, Lucie. "Au miroir de l'amour médecine, philosophie et représentations dans l'oeuvre d'Évrart de Conty." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 2008. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2680.
Full textTereno, Filipe. "Donner la vie : prolégomènes à une philosophie phénomènologique de la vie." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040122.
Full textThe possibility to conceive the facticity, not as a dimension where the facts stood at the "expectation" of being grasped by an act of intellection that would constitute them, but as the mouvement of the act of intellection itself ; this possibility, already present in Husserl, that looks upon the facts as having a significant intention, has been linked, by Heidegger, to the intellection of the being in general. This possibility makes the human actions to be an articulation of the being’s understanding. However, this understanding, going thoroughly into the forgetfulness of the being, makes at the same time the obscureness of it’s own major difficulty – how can one shows the ontological difference itself ? Our aim, beyond the attempt to reduce or to try to develop a number of topics that would interfere with the primacy of this ontological difference, is to introduce "life" as the most original dimension, as the condition for all others, from where the light could expand itself in a way that the true reasons of the phenomenological and ontological difficulties would became apparent
Corbic, Arnaud. "Les fondements d'une philosophie de l'homme sans Dieu dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010547.
Full textBiasiolo, Quentin. "L'amour à l'épreuve du temps." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSEN076.
Full textFrom the moment it is born, love seems to be accompanied by a desire to last forever, and an intimate belief that it will last. Sometimes this belief is based on the enigmatic forgetting that this love, until a few moments ago, had no existence. For, as soon as it appears, love seems to create, by some unknown means, something like a common past which surrounds the lovers, thus making up for long memories. Projecting its evidence on our past, love thus extends its clarity on the future itself, and one would, in fact, struggle to believe in the love of the one who would form the project of loving provisionally.And yet, despite its claim to eternity, love often encounters a great many obstacles to its maintenance. For time, if it causes us to become what we are, it also causes us to change, and our feelings, as well as those that we carry, can, as a result, also change. If it can be what brings together and unites two subjects more and more, consolidating their feelings, time is also the occasion for love to change: with time, desire sometimes dies out, and with it passion. And even when the relationship seems to maintain itself, it is sometimes only by virtue of a slow and discreet substitution of love by habit: thus it is believed that love lasts while it has, in fact, disappeared under the effect of the latter. Answering the question of becoming would then imply asking whether, between the extinction of desire and the sleep of habit, a way could exist to love and to love each other over a long period of time
Bretin, Marie-Line. "Des formes érotiques de l'amour." Thesis, Besançon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BESA1023.
Full textThis thesis centres on the role played by the various forms of erotic love in the construction of the human psyche as in the Self and the Subject. Erotic love is sudden, symbiotic and exclusive. It is the love of the beginnings or love at first sight. There are two forms of erotic love. Firstly there are certain "profane" expressions that take part in the construction of the Self : primordial eroticism experienced by the new-born in its relationship with is Birth Mother, complemented by both motherly eroticism and erotic love. This period pf profane eroticism builds a powerful identification with the love one, in which a strange and foreign being is brought abruptly close to them. When this erotic period is over, it leaves behind essential identification markers, in a form of layer within the Self. Thefascinating otherness of the Other has thus become sameness and the Other can never again be loved erotically. In addition, philosophic and religious eroticism come into play in the emergence of the Subject. The common thread in all eroticism is the idealisation of the loved-one, by which the loved-one becomes this absolute Other, incarnated in the Birth Mother, the New-born, the Spiritual Father who takes on the tribal Father in each of us, the Loved-One and the Lover, and finally the older Brother of a spiritualised humanity
Larger, Victor. "Amour et personne, psychologie et éthique de la relation médicale." Lyon 3, 2007. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2007_in_larger_v.pdf.
Full textThe medical relationship seems to have a well-defined aim : healing, i. E body “repair”. Medical science, based on an exclusive positivist materialism, is the doctor's main reference. Even so, doctors and patients are often aware of neglecting an important part of what the real issue of the consultation is. In fact, in this interpersonal encounter, two people are deeply involved and the purely medical aspect is even often a mere pretext. The consultation is the place where the sick person is revealed. It is then necessary to consider the human concept through the history of philosophy based on the modern personalist movement. Having a better comprehension of this notion, relational implications in the medical meeting context can be clarified. It's the friendly involvement the doctor has and nourishes for his patient that binds its ethical attitude to his service , giving a framework to the technical approach
Monnier, David. "Le mécanisme de l'amour." Rennes 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009REN20011.
Full textThe thesis elaborates the mechanism of love generated from the doctrine of Jacques Lacan through seven models. Notably, this work clarifies the definition, structure, situations, function, functioning, criteria, conditions, circumstances and limits of love. Consequently, it seeks to fix the articulation of love in terms of desire, need, sensual pleasure, drive and fantasy. In tandem, it considers literary and musical works, social representations and cultural myths, which are descriptive of love
Lepage, Monique. "De la contemplation." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=845752071&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=9268&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textServerat, Vincent. "L'être et la joie : la philosophie de Ramon Llull dans le "Libre d'Amic e Amat"." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040127.
Full textEssay of restitution of the philosophical subjects underlying this literary text: ontology of "esse", system of human passions (with emphasis on the pair joy sadness), love and friendship, metaphysic of divine perfections, theology of creation and incarnation, symbolism, cosmology of material elements, ethics (freedom, values, intention), mystic thought, etc. The method focuses the point of convergence between these philosophical questions and facts of language, as stylistic figures, lexical productions, linguistic structures, etc
Chukurian, Aurélien. "Descartes et le christianisme : une philosophie en accord avec la foi ?" Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEN006.
Full textThe thesis brings into light the manner in which Descartes considers the relationship between his philosophy and Christianity through showing that the Cartesian articulation of reason and faith finds its meaning in a non-contradictory separation which leads to an agreement. When analysing his work, Descartes appears as a philosopher who looks after to establish new concepts which conciliate with Christianity.The thesis focuses two fields of investigation to study the meaning of such an agreement and the relationship to Christianity that it involves. On one hand, there is the Cartesian Eucharistic theory: Descartes elaborates, in the light of his own physical principles, two explanations of the central sacrament of the Christian faith. The thesis points out the original purpose of the explanations. In brief, they are not only intended to supplant the scholastic model based on the Aristotelian principles but also to conform to the decrees of the Magisterium (the Council of Trent), amid protecting the Catholic dogma from Protestant attacks, bringing it a gain of rationality. On the other hand, there is the Cartesian morality, which is considered traditionally as absent of the Cartesian corpus. The thesis reconstructs the Cartesian moral theory using the Correspondence and Passions of the soul. Described as a "moral of contentment", due to the Philosophical research of “the happy life” here below, the Cartesian moral theory is divided into two axes. The first being the Sovereign Good, which consists in the right use of free will, and the second being the mastery of passions, where the keystone is the passion-virtue of generosity. The Cartesian moral theory manifests an effort to articulate with Christianity, which is illustrated in particular in several strong points which are analysed by the thesis: the Cartesian conception of providence in its general and particular dimension, and how it implies the free and joyful submission of the subject; the extent of the universe, which revokes anthropocentrism while celebrating the glory of God; the topic of the immortality of the soul, which opens up another life while valorising the current life; the image of God, which shines in the right use of free will, only source of the self-esteem; the passion of generosity, which incites one to prefer other people rather than the self in a love of friendship and can be a philosophical transposition of Christian charity.Thus Eucharist and moral translate two great meanings of the agreement, reflecting two modalitiesof articulation between Cartesian philosophy and Christianity. From one side, the search for conformity with dogma. From the other, philosophy, becoming more ambitious over time, gives an understanding of Christianity based on its own interpretation of some elements shared by reason and faith (God and his attributes, immortality of soul, relationship to other). For this reason, the thesis intends to renew the studies on the Descartes' religious thought: the great merit of Cartesian thought is to institute, on the basis of a prior separation between reason and faith, an agreement which has a variable meaning, while taking care not to go beyond his domain, Descartes giving up the salvation and the grace to theology
Ramel, André. "La bûche embrasée : étude philosophique de le vive flamme d'amour de Jean de la Croix." Toulouse 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU20022.
Full textAfter a foreword dealing with the mystical studies in a world in a crisis, the introduction situates the vivid flame of love in john of the cross's works and presents the general problematic. The first part intitled "the being, the flame and the cross" is composed of three chapters. The first one describes the poetical activity of john of the cross and shows the primordial importance of poems in this mystic's works. The second chapter states the fondamental principles of the mystical john of the cross's theology. The third chapter depicts the main thesis of the anthropology of the carmelite order in general and of john of the cross in particular. The second part entitled "the changing union of love" is entirely centered on the reality of the ontological change of man who, during the mystical process, becomes god by taking part in it. The first chapter emphasizes the importance of the spiritual master. The second one analyzes the highest degrees of mystical life and their anthropological consequences. Chapter three deals with the reality of man's deification. The conclusion establishes a dialogue between john of the cross's doctrine and the various trends of contemporary thought
Youm, Paul. "Les interprétations de la doctrine platonicienne de la réminiscence dans la tradition médio et néoplatonicienne grecque." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040098.
Full textFrom Philo of Alexandria to Elias through Alkinoos, Plutarch of Cheroneus, Plotinus, Porphyrus, Syrianus,Hermias, Proclus, Damascius, Simplicius, Olympiodorus, twenty eight texts written by sixteen authors of medioand neoplatonician philosophy have permitted us to deal with how these commentators read and understand thePlato’s theory of recollection. Reading Plato was, for them, dealing with how truth is being revealed to thehuman soul; that is to say, how the soul which have known things before entering bodies recollect them, how itovercomes oblivion.It is usually claimed that recollection in Plato is in the Meno, Phaedrus and Phaedo dialogues.Thus, we notice that Theaetetus and Timaeus were visited by commentators whose aim was to show that thetheory of recollection is the way truth is revealed in the soul’s discurse. For Plato, recollection is an a properexperience for human beings, for the tradition, that is the same attitude, except a surprising formula of Proclusthat we can find in an Elias’s text. For Plato, the soul, as it is said in the Meno, possesses knowledge; due to theMedioplatonicians specially, the common notions («koinai ennoiai» ), we have seen that the human knowledgecomes out as the product of recollection, but by a starting step in which these knowledge are need stimulation andclarification. Moreover, as soon as with Plotinus appeared the philosophical concept of forms in the soul, itbecame clearer for Syrianus, Hermias, Proclus, Damascius, Simplicius and others that intelligible forms werepresent in the soul as images. Concerned a lot by philosophical «symphonia» between Plato and Aristotle, theyintroduce the problematic of Universals through Aristotle writings, particularly through Categories. From thenon, recollection became a process which can be divided in various cognitive steps or various attainments ofdifferent types of «logoi». The consider the role of sensible beauty, the important place of abstraction, but finally,for most of them, recollection is specially the crucial moment when the soul recollect the intelligible forms,moving itself, as dynamic as «Eros», and, in its turn, produce forms. As a conclusion, recollection start later thenin Plato’s conception and moreover, it may go trough out and concern the realities above the level of intelligibleforms. Those are variations of the theory according to commentators who were generally convince that theirsearch was strictly truth and only truth, rather than fidelity toward Plato himself
Stagnara, Denise. "Amours fidèles : utopie et réalitéRôle de l'éducation." Lyon 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LYO20009.
Full textPart one : the failure of love seemed to us the most serious and harmful problem. Can it be prevented? the four hundred adults questioned and 25. 313 questions from pupils show that there exist a desire for true love and deep respect for faithful marriage relationships. Part three : education and maieutics : the law faculties, the medical faculties, and institutes of social science applied to the family train professional people to whom couples can turn for help. The media : the printed press, films, radio, television, popular music and litterature are often counterproductive as far as faithful married love is concerned. However the family, school, catechism classes, certain young people's and adults' associations should be given the means to help the pursuit of faithful love, as marriage statistically ensures the best chance of approaching this utopia. Love is worth living for. Love is our concern
Zhao, Jing. "La mélancolie entre philosophie et littérature : lecture de l’oeuvre autobiographique de Simone de Beauvoir." Thesis, Paris 5, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA05H022/document.
Full textThis study outlines a dynamic network of melancholic experiences in Simone de Beauvoir, from the perspective of autobiography and philosophy of existence. Transforming into "desire to exist", the useless passion human towards the Being in Jean-Paul Sartre, Beauvoir's thought rests on the problem of morality, of the existence of the concrete and separate individual in the world, as well as the intersubjective relationship. However, Beauvoir aspires continually to the Absolute abstract which inevitably leads to the ontological frustration, which is an inherent structure to melancholy. This establishes an ongoing dialogue in her work and life, we have revealed her autobiographies, between desire for existence and non-desire which is expressed by apathy, fatigue and disgust. This helps us to determine the existence of melancholy at Beauvoir. However, the task is made difficult by its ambition to describe the totality of life and of the world. In addition, times and melancholy feelings are scattered throughout a lifetime, narrated by autobiographer who plays the game of shadow-clear. Although we risk losing what makes the specificity and complexity, melancholy seems unattainable without linking it to its metamorphoses. That's why we make a careful study of these autobiographies to follow the moments and feelings: solitude adolescent boredom, melancholy of love, the impotence of the political subject, mourning of loved ones, until the anxiety of time and aging. The first chapter discusses the philosophical infrastructure of melancholy, which is the tension between the desire to exist, and non-desire. The review of literary representation and the phenomenological ontology of Sartre melancholy, and new contributions of Simone de Beauvoir in the postwar, encourage us to discern a theory of feminine melancholy in The Second Sex. Given the similarity of experiences between her feminist project and autobiographical project, we seek to build an intertextual network between his self-writing and its existential anthropological theory of women, studying necessarily correlated novels. Considering the small number of pages, our choice is rather on his autobiographies, and his theory and novels about women which serve as key references. In the following chapters, we try to explore the experiences of / with Beauvoir, to the extent that they relate to melancholy. The second chapter focuses exclusively on the childhood story, to its autonomy on the later accounts, and focuses on loneliness and adolescent boredom. The third chapter tries to establish a relationship between the passion of love and melancholy. The fourth finds impotence of the subject in the experience of war. The fifth discover the relationship between mother and daughter in the essay of maternal grief, and from this, to look for his latest novel about the diversity of women's melancholy. The last chapter wants to gather the insurmountable moments of the human being around death and anguish of time, to clarify their relation about melancholy in our author
Tingting, Cai. "Le regard et la métamorphose de l'amour." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC280.
Full textThrough a psychoanalytic reading of the chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, i iould like to articulate the function of the look, represented in the novel by the transcendent jade, with the various manifestations of love in its evolution : from its predisposition to annihilation, going through its beginning and reconstitution, during which the look acts successively as an exhibitor, a trigger, a revealer and a destroyer. By the word look, i designate in which and around which the instinctual organization is structured : it satisfies simultaneously the aims of Eros and Thanatos and makes possible their development in a precarious instinctual intrication which is always on the edge of disintrication. Therefore, love is changing and must change, in a process where the subject is confronted with the dialectic between the similar and the different, between the constructive and the destructive, in the very place where the life meets the death
Desplanches, Sophie. "Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743) : religion, philosophie et pensée maçonnique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA078.
Full textAndrew Michael Ramsay was a Scottish intellectual of the Enlightenment and was at the same time a "religious adventurer", a political author and a freemason. Born into a Protestant family, he undertook a search for spiritual stability and for a doctrine more in line with his aspirations. In this quest, he journeyed through several countries, and he eventually found in the company of Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai, and of Madame Guyon, an advocate of the doctrine of "Pure Love", a spiritual father and mother. Inspired by them, he finally converted to a Gallican variety of Catholicism which was at the root of his call to a life of constant soul-searching. From his work four treatises emerge: An Essay upon Civil Government (1721), in which he sought to show that the best form of government is an absolute, hereditary monarchy, based on divine right. As a zealous Jacobite, he longed for the return of the Stuarts to the British throne. The Life of Fénelon (1727) deals mainly with the various stages leading up to his conversion by the prelate. The Travel of Cyrus (1727) is a didactic, apologetic and political novel which relates the education of a young accomplished prince endowed with wisdom and piety. His most considerable work is The Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion (1749), commonly called the "Great Work", which was published posthumously. Here the freemason can be seen beneath the philosopher. His Discourse (1737) traces the origins of Freemasonry back to the crusades, and also sets out the obligations that every freemason must adhere to and which he is reminded of during his initiation. His success in radically changing this organization so deeply attached to its customs remains the lasting legacy of this complex, mystical and political figure who is Andrew Michael Ramsay
Sigayret, Lucien. "L'imaginaire de la guerre et de l'amour chez Claudien." Perpignan, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PERP0509.
Full textRoggero, Jorge Luis. "Phénoménologie de la donation, héméneutique et religion chez Jean-Luc Marion." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL083.
Full textThe present work aims to examine Marion’s phenomenological project by characterizing it as a hermeneutics of love. In doing so, I will try to find within the possibilities of the phenomenology of donation an answer to the two main objections it has received: the hermeneutic objection (Greisch, Grondin, and others) and the theological objection (Janicaud, Benoist, and others). Following the young Heidegger’s phenomenology, the phenomenology of givenness operates as a hermeneutics insofar as it must decipher the enigmatic sense of the saturated phenomenon and it does so only by philosophically appropriating a theological
Kimoto, Yuataka. "L'univers passionnel de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040286.
Full textDe, Araujo Magalhaes Maria Da Gloria. "La dialectique du troubadour et de la figure féminine dans les chansons d’amour et d’ami Gallaïco-portugaises une thématique : l’amour et l’érotisme." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030139.
Full textThe study of our corpus is about the gallaïco-portuguese songs of love and friend dated from the late twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. The problem is to determine what dialectic maintain the troubadour and the feminine face through the two lyric genres in the context of love and eroticism. Their loving relationship is based on a dialectic either Platonic or Hegelian, depending on the lyric genre, the theme of love and eroticism, their social class, the reference to real and imaginary loving stories of the period, but also of the material, the shape, the origin and the source of influence of the song. The glance carried towards the woman in the iberian medieval society was under the influence of a double speech maintained by the Thinkers of the Church which consisted, on one hand to minimize the importance of woman in making responsible original sin and on the other hand to associate her a maternal image and Marian quite at the same time. In front of this vision, the troubadour intends to design a new image of woman in his lyrical compositions, according to two models of representation. At first, he describes an abstract and inaccessible feminine face in a space and sacred time through an erotic paint in the love. This face is similar to that of the Lady of the court, the countess of Tripoli or the Virgin Mary. But also, near him, he depicts her in loving narratives corresponding to the profane world and to the historic and social reality, as a young woman married or single, belonging either to the nobility, the middle-class, or the peasantry
Dawalibi, Paul. "L'amour comme aban-don de soi." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/these_dawalibi/paris4/2008/these_dawalibi/html/index-frames.html.
Full textBy the event of the loss of one, the loss of the intimacy of one, the self leash-being-taken according to the requirements of a native abnegation or renunciation in what made begin in her the immoderation, the nonlimit and the increasing of what has already begun in her since her birth. So, any resemblance holds in her its difference, any appropriation exposes it self to a change, any power breaks, any pride alienates and any narcissism suffocate or suppresses under the charm of its own beauty. And because the limit of one "at home" is by definition non-familiar, the paradox of the borders, so produced, will distort (alter) at least the power to be one and even the meaning of an "at home" ontological. From then on, get lost it is to let the self-abnegation make the native come in itself, it is to be originally according to the arrival of the event of its birth, of the resumption of the donation native of one. Only the arrival of what creates the self originally makes possible to let-be-abandoned by one. Only the arrival of Love makes possible the native donation as the self-abnegation
Bonnery-Constans, Nathalie. "De l'essai au poème : l'inspiration du catharisme dans l'oeuvre de René Nelli." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30058.
Full textBaltus, Benoît. "Le philosophe artiste : La mise en surface de la philosophie : Panopticon, Amor fati, Etre au monde, L’Ethique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100054.
Full textThe philosopher artist is a either fantasized or disowned figure. Its very possibility represents the impossible border between philosophical discourse and artistic creation. Although Nietzsche invokes this polemical figure, he has not been able to establish the philosopher artist. Indeed he abandons it in favor of a reincarnated Dionysos, better armed to overcome the confrontation with Apollo. Here is, then, an orphan figure which seems to only refer to a romantic and idealistic nostalgia where philosophy, at last, would share its privileged objects as well as its analytical methods with artistic practice. The question should nonetheless be asked: through what means ought the philosopher artist carry together art and philosophy?This thesis attempts to reintroduce this “eternal” problem by investigating every step of the way the typical tensions that this figure convokes: form and content; metaphysics and phenomena; language and metaphor. Similarly, although Nietzsche is the central figure of this investigation, we will also call upon other and equally typical philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, as well as Spinoza and Aristotle. However, the aim of the thesis is not to grasp once again these properly philosophical problems as their utterance should be tested through artistic practice. Rather than uselessly attempt to elect a figure without master nor limit, the thesis thus contemplates, each time, a solution through artistic creation, manifested in original choreographic creations. These creations were produced in parallel with the research and elaborate singular works of art based on the same questions as the thesis. They confer to the dissertation a certain plasticity that the purely philosophical argument may have lacked. Further, they abolish the border inasmuch as they confront the same constraints as the argument: Panopticon interrogates panoptism as studied by Foucault in Discipline and Punish; Amor Fati elaborates on the concept of “eternal return” developed by Nietzsche; Etre au Monde recasts the question of sensibility as explored by Merleau-Ponty; finally, L’Ethique strives to reinvest from a sensible point of view the architecture of the axiomatic work of Spinoza. Is it not the meaning of the philosopher artist? Experiment and feel to study the effects?
Clément, Sylvain. "Compassion et personne. : le Personnalisme français (1930-1950) à l'épreuve de la compassion." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC007.
Full textTo what extent do the foundations and essential concepts of French personalism (1930-1950) make it possible to consider compassion as a way to know the person ? Here is the problem this work faces. The first part analyses the experience of compassion through several figures and forms. After explaining the fundamental axes of French personalism, the second part shows that compassion is problematic to this current of thought because it brings to light personalism inner tensions. The third part confirms and tempers this diagnostic studying the role of compassion in M. Nédoncelle’s and E. Mounier’s works. The fourth part builds on S. Weil’s thought to offer a renewal of this personalism so as to remedy this underestimation of compassion. Finally, in the perspective of such a renewal, the last part questions the relation between personalism and Christianism
Cugurno, Emmanuelle. "Liberté et genèse de la personne humaine dans l'oeuvre de Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0058.
Full textThe thesis is divided in two parts. The first one analyses the concept and status of humain person, trying to follow the line of the human being's authentical development: from sensibility to the rising of conscience and moral. The second part develops the question of freedom into social and political order. The thesis endeavours to show that the transition from an order to another one is made possible by the permanence of the exigency of men's freedom. The chapters treat respectively of relation between nature and politic, political freedom and social contract, passions and social contracts. The thesis ends with the question of religion and the place it takes, in the city on one hand and for the personn on the other hand
Mahéo, Gabriel. "Le problème de l'amour en phénoménologie." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN1S109.
Full textOur purpose in this work is to build a phenomenological description of human love through three ways of investigation. First, we describe love as a mode of intentionnality, with Scheler's and Husserl's analysis, in order to elucidate how love reveals or constitutes values. Then, in the second part, we approach the phenomenological problem of love as configuration of a new world, by reconsidering the debate between Heidegger and Binswanger about his function within the Dasein existential analysis. By doing so, the problem of love appears in his connection with ontology. In the third part of this work, we finally try to expose the human meaning of love, which appears in Sartre's phenomenology. By including love in a phenomenology of existence, Sartre allows us to understand how it must be described with the opposition of authenticity and inauthenticity, that is to say without including any theological presupposition in the phenomenological description
Bouzguenda, Saloua. "Damm al-hawâ (Condamnation de la passion) d’Ibn al-Jawzî (m. en 597/1200) : traduction annotée précédée d’une présentation." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040048.
Full textThe work we are translating, entitled Damm al-hawâ, treats of a profane love as it is perceived by the anbalite preacher Abû l-Farağ b. al-Ğawzî (d. 597/1200). It is important to mention that Ibn al-Ğawzî is considered up to now as one of the greatest reference-leaders of certain “islamist” movements. Being very aware of the stakes represented by love-passion (‛išq) for the Moslem and of all that it might entail, bearing in mind its excessive and obsessive character, such us disorder and depravity, Ibn al-Ğawzî strives to fight against this plague and will direct all his efforts towards both a rationalization of passion and a glorification of the virtue, resorting to the legal texts of the šarî‛a and following into the footsteps of the pious ancestors. What he particularly condemns, is this new form of ‛išq inspired by the slave-singers (qiyân) wich has a tendancy to expand with the islamic city. These love practices will require new behaviour-rules which would delineate their usage leading us to think that the legal texts of arîa were not deep enough to slove the issues of the time
Duarte, Sandra. "Entre déterminisme et libre arbitre : les images emblématiques de la Fortune dans le roman néo-grec espagnol (1604-1657)." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CLF20012/document.
Full textIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thanks to the writings of Achilles Tatiusand Heliodorus of Emesa, two Greek authors who lived the first centuries of the Christian era, the Spanish writers rediscover a new particular genre. Those books are either labeled as adventure novels or Byzantine novels. Both the terms “novel” and “Byzantine” are inadequate since those books deal with storylines in prose or in verse dating back to the end of the fifth century, that is to say prior to what is commonly and historically termed as the Byzantine era. We will stick to the expressions “Spanishand Greek novel” or “Baroque novel” as taken up by Georges Molinié in order to label this new fictional genre in which we can perceive the development of a literature more in terms with the ethic and a esthetic standards of the Horacian « utile dulci ».Influenced by the political and religious frame of the Counter Reformation, the Spanish and Greek novel or « Baroque novel » exposes in an underlying way the theme of the diatribe about free will and predestination. The role played byProvidence and Fate in those novels, in particular under their emblematic form, is revealing of the Catholic dogmas defended during the Council of Trent. In the four books of the corpus (El peregrino en su patria by Lope de Vega, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda written by Miguel de Cervantes, Historia deHipólito y Aminta by Francisco de Quintana, Baltasar Gracian’s El Criticón) the issues of determinism and salvation are being raised. This occurs either during thedialogues, or in the development of the plot through the appearance of phenomena of astrological prediction or of other natures dealing with the notions of Fortune and Destiny. In the same way, the characters – through the way they act and behave –evoke the notion of free will, thus underlining the importance of the actions they accomplish in order to secure their salvation
Duteille, Cécile. "Anthropologie phénoménologique des rencontres destinales." Phd thesis, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00009194.
Full text1.- Une enquête sur le sens sociologique fondamental de la rencontre (son rôle dans la constitution du lien social). La rencontre n'est pas qu'un fait "naturel" de la vie quotidienne, elle n'est pas non plus qu'un fait déterminé (par des conditions sociales et psychologiques). La rencontre a aussi une autre face : elle possède des potentialités de changement, de bouleversement qui interdisent de la traiter uniquement comme un fait anodin ou « simple ». Il faut aussi considérer la rencontre au sens fort du terme et tenir compte de cet aspect dans l'analyse de la vie sociale. Ainsi, à travers l'étude de rencontres dites « destinales » (coup de foudre, rencontre avec le divin, expérience esthétique, rencontres fatidiques, mauvaises rencontres...), on présente une typologie illustrée par des références aux œuvres culturelles (littérature, cinéma). La prise en compte de la dimension existentielle et fantasmatique de la rencontre nous fait voir que le social est un composé complexe de logiques et d'incertitudes, de déterminations et d'occasions, d'actions et d'imagination.
2.- Étant donnée la nature proprement transversale et interdisciplinaire de l'objet « rencontre », cette thèse invite aussi à une discussion sur l'épistémologie et la méthodologie des sciences humaines et sociales, notamment à travers une réflexion critique sur le réductionnisme naturaliste.
Roodt, Vasti. "Amor fati, amor mundi : Nietzsche and Arendt on overcoming modernity." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1230.
Full textAlphand, Véronique. "L'univers imaginaire de Marie Noël." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20017.
Full textMarie noel's imaginary universe lies upon four main axes, four obsessive themes: childhood, love, space and time. Childhood mentioned on several occasions allows to bring to mind marie noel's own childhood and to perceive the first signs of her artistic gifts. Marie noel follows tradition when she describes love; however she often attempts to part from that tradition, for example when she joins her christian outlook to the theme. Marie noel's works gradually build up an original space, in which the places fit for happiness and the places in which unhappiness prevails inexorably face each other. A tragic note appears in marie noel's works when she comes to write about time : it is always thought of tragically; it always brings misfortune. The vision of heraclitean stream betrays this obsession of unhappiness linked to time, the obsession of the precarous human condition. The "noelian" being, deprived of any feeling of safety, wonders apprehensively: "who am i in this world in which all things pass away?" moreover, time leads to death and the author, in her very first works, rebels against fate. Her cry of revolt darkens her universe
Balderas-Laignelet, Christelle. "La poésie comme sublimation du vécu. Pour une étude de l'œuvre de Sandro Penna." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30051.
Full textThis thesis deals with the work of the Italian poet Sandro Penna and intends to be a critical and chronological reading and analysis. Penna stands apart from the poetical movements of his time; therefore most of his poems and prose narration works are very short and present a timeless view of Life mainly focused on love for young men (from 13 to 16 y.o). From his very first writings this topic is recurrent and obsessional. This is the reason why it is difficult to establish his work as “an autobiographical novel in verse”. Consequently the collections Poesie, Confuso sogno, Peccato di gola. (Poesie al fermo posta) and Un po’ di febbre are analysed in order to relate the uncommon Penna’s personal path and to confirm that love for young men expresses a more universal love for Life. In this “out of time” life an echo of voices of his coevals, such as Saba, Montale, Ungaretti and Pasolini and of his predecessors like Leopardi and Pascoli can be heard. Two aims appear in the poetical and existential quest by Penna: - restoring a harmonious dialog with the Beginning (which is considered as the myth of the original childhood from which memories are immediately absorbed by the spleen of Modernity); - seeing human life as an infinite cycle. From this viewpoint, Platon and Nietzsche’s works, which were well known by Penna, allow us to go further into this questioning through which the poet succeeds in sublimating Real Life
Diouf, Jeanne Diouma. "La métaphysique de l'amour chez Bergson : l'élan d'amour, de l'origine de la vie à l'humanité divine." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU20013.
Full textThe metaphysics of love in Bergson’s philosophy is revealed in the book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. The author proposes an evolutionist theory of love, in parallel with that of the life. This theory which traces the process of the impulse of love from the origins of life to the advent of divine humanity, that is to say the universal brotherhood that embraces the whole of humanity. This belief allows Bergson to develop a love-based morality in response to the tragic situation of Europe. 'between two wars. In his project, he confronts the epistemological problem to access the creative principle of life, the source of the love. To circumvent the difficulty, he resorts to mysticism. The conciliation between these two domains generates other problems. The originality of his thought lies in the fact that he came out of idealism to build a philosophical thought on the concrete of human existence. Indeed, the unfortunate and upsetting sociopolitical events of the twentieth century, which led the whole of mankind to disgrace, have not failed to influence the author's thinking
Brown, Julius. "Penser le corps, sa puissance et sa destinée chez Spinoza : aux sources de son anthropologie." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAK012/document.
Full textSpinoza assesses the Copernican revolution and advocates a rationalist and materialistic naturalismagainst the onto-theological tradition, Aristotle and Descartes as the two main figures thereof,theologians and the Bible not to mention. Spinoza interprets the error of geocentrism as indicating twoother errors: classical anthropological dualism which subjugated the body to the soul and the illusion offree-will. By gnoseological, psychophysical and socio-emotional rehabilitation of the body, he claims tolead man to present salvation, not eschatological, reconciling him with himself and with God as Nature.The permanence of Hebraic anthropological sensibility is pregnant, which does not cancel metaphysical,soteriological and ethical disparities between him and the Bible. These disparities could bring Spinozacloser to Aristotle than to Descartes. Will the spinozian project keep its promises without relapsing intothe traps of the mythical and the mystical ?
Miravète, Sébastien. "La durée bergsonienne comme nombre et comme morale." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOU20023/document.
Full textThis work proposes to revisit the principal concept of Bergson's philosophy : la durée. Firstly, la durée is a special number. Jankélévitch and Deleuze think that la durée of consciousness has only quality properties, but, in fact, the real time for Bergson is not a form without numerical dimension. Secondly, the signification of la durée is moral. Deleuze and Henri Gouhier think that the finality of life, for Bergson, is the innovation, the creation, (love of creation) but, in fact, the finality of life is the construction of a fraternal society (creation of love)
Pennel, Audrey. "Femme et dame de courtoisie dans les manuscrits enluminés en France aux XIVe et XVe siècles." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UBFCH006/document.
Full textWith a corpus of one hundred and twenty-seven illuminations, from eighty-one manuscripts painted in France in the 14th and 15th centuries, my thesis examines the construction of the lady’s character, through the texts and the imagery.Between imagination and historical reality, we studying how the representations of this idealized figure, praised by troubadours and authors of the late Middle Ages, influence social relationship about the medieval noble woman. It is necessary to distinguish these feminine entities, one real, the other ideal, both sharing some similarities through the images.Our iconographic study is based on two main axes: social rituals and identity. This work uses the serial method of medieval imagery, developped by Jérôme Baschet. It considering recurrences and iconographic modulations, as well as the singularity of the illuminations. This method requires a connection between the images, revealing certain gestures and manners to define the lady’s identity as an object or a subject in the representations.The thesis then explores the role of the lady in the imaginary and the chivalrous society, the "courtly" culture of vassalic rites and the identity of this loved character, between allegory, gender and transgression
Litwin, Christophe. "Généalogies de l'amour de soi : Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0059.
Full textMy dissertation is an inquiry into the passion of self-love and the quarrel on its Interpretation that emerges after the Renaissance: for both the Augustinians and the Humanists, self-love is regarded as a specifically human kind of dissoluteness. The first however interpret it as the original corruption of charity to which mankind cannot remedy without God’s supernatural grace and the gift of faith; the second, influenced by their reading of Aristotle, Plato and Cicero, tend on the contrary to regard self-love less as the corruption of clarity, than as a depraved modification of the natural love every living has for itself. I address the anthropological, moral, political, aesthetical and theological implications of this quarrel through the works of Montaigne, Pascal and Rousseau
Charcharé, Hélène. "Proust et Platon. Convergences linguistiques, érotiques et philosophiques." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA017/document.
Full textThe thesis entitled Proust and Plato is mainly based on the affinities between the two great figures of universal scope. Although there is a significant time gap between them, we have tried to develop an approximation in three distinct parts. The first part is devoted to etymology and philosophy of language, namely the effort of Proust and Plato to establish the correctness of the name against the thing it represents. At first, we put the language at the epicenter of our analysis, in an effort to locate the various tendencies, –cratylism, hermogenism, naturalism, conventionalism –, in a critical dialogue: the Cratylus. Secondly, it is etymology that revives the linguistic effervescence, representing a pivotal topic in both Proust and Plato: it questions the use of words and names, as well as their relevance with the thing they represent. The other great linguistic theory proposed is hermogenism, named after the theory of Hermogenes in the Cratylus, who argues that the names have been invented on the basis of an agreement between the people who use them. Secondly, it is love in all its manifestations that takes over: the focus is on the most delightful work of Plato, the Banquet. We will start by highlighting the role of the banquet as an institution in antiquity. These are without a doubt the mostappropriate surroundings to talk about pederasty, the androgyne, but also ἀγάπη. Nevertheless, the Banquet also has its Aristophanian side: by assigning to the great comedy writer the articulation of his most famous myth, Plato perhaps wanted to highlight the more satirical side of eros. However, this idyllic myth also triggers the review of many themes concerning homosexuality in ancient Greece. The Proustian part on love is dedicated initially to the importance of the aristocratic banquet, place of the social, romantic and artistic initiation of the Narrator. It is furthermore based on the different manifestations of ἒρως and ἀγάπη in the novel:friendship, homosexuality, artistic procreation. The last stage of the second part is dedicated to death and the beyond in Greek Antiquity and the three tales of nekyia in the Platonic corpus. We will underline the existence of it as a leitmotiv in the Proustian novel as well. The final section has a rather disconcerting title: Δεύτερος πλοῦς, a second navigation. Here, we would like to emphasize the effort of Plato and Proust to reach the most unfathomable truths by taking iconoclastic paths: for Plato, it would be reminiscence, Ideal aesthetics and myth, while the Proustian segment focuses on time and memory, aesthetics and the narrative techniques of the novel. We hope that at the end of this study the contiguous reflections highlighted in the works of Plato and Proust will have turned into dazzling sparkles