Le concept d'enfant : problèmes de genèse et d'histoire

The concept of child : problems of genesis and history

• Auteur / Autrice : Jean-Claude Quentel
• Direction : Jean Gagnepain
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Psychologie
• Date : Soutenance en 1989
• Etablissement(s) : Rennes 2

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

Acquisition du langage

Déficience intellectuelle

Médiation (philosophie)

Enfants -- Psychologie clinique

Enfants -- Psychologie

Enfants et adultes

Résumé

Child in his concrete reality is not a scientific evidence. The adultocentrism makes here a fundamental impediment. It may be overgrown by a disconstruction of this evidence in a number of analysis levels that pathology leads to put up. At an early period, child emerges as a matter of fact to logical, technical and ethical capacities which are in their principles equal to those of the adult. On the other hand, a difference is observed between the access to these capacities and the emergence to the person: on the ground of this difference appears an impregnation period which gives the child a different status compared with adult. But, all things considered, child is a dimension of the person: he is its always present origin in so far as he is the unceasing condition of what we socially are. Simple mean of acculturating in our person the communication with others, he is really a decisive question for human sciences; he is at the crossing of genesis and history and makes concept only here.