Durkheim, Mauss et la dynamogénie : le lien Gley (1857–1930)

SEMBEL, Nicolas

doi:10.3167/ds.2015.210105

Métadonnées

Afficher la notice complète

Licence d’utilisation du document

SEMBEL, Nicolas
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]

Langue

Article de revue

Ce document a été publié dans

Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes. 2015 n° 21, p. 96-133

Berghahn

Résumé en anglais

This article develops that of William Watts Miller (in Durkheimian Studies 2005), who called for further detective work on the idea of ‘dynamogénie’. My investigations show a way of linking it with Durkheim and Mauss in bringing out that Eugène Gley – according to Mauss, a ‘lifelong friend’ of Durkheim’s – was one of the last to work with the idea’s chief originator, C-E. Brown-Séquard, a doctor who succeeded Claude Bernard at the Collège de France and a central figure in Watts Miller’s article. ‘Dynamogénie’ was first described by Brown-Séquard in 1851 in relation to a case of religious ecstasy, and was characterized by him as an exceptional and unconscious mobilization of nervous and muscular energy. It was then actively – if somewhat mysteriously – taken up by Durkheim and Mauss over sixty years later in their co-signed review of Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. Gley, whose trajectory ran in parallel with Durkheim’s and to a lesser extent Mauss’s, constitutes a link between them and ‘dynamogénie’ that helps us fill out the two men’s intellectual horizons.< Réduire

Mots clés en anglais

Brown-Séquard

Durkheim

dynamogenics

Gley

Mauss

Métadonnées

Licence d’utilisation du document