Paul Ricoeur’s convergence of history and psychoanalysis

Abstract

Ricoeur have been interested in psychoanalysis and history throughout nearly all his work. However, both issues have been developed for a long time on parallel tracks. In the eighties approaches his interpretation of psychoanalysis get closer to history. On the other side, history has its psychoanalytic turn in Memory, History, Forgetting. Our hypothesis is that Ricoeur had to modify his conception of history and psychoanalysis to achieve this convergence process. In short, psychoanalysis had to be ‘historicized’, and history ‘pathologiezed’.