Une phénoménologie de la culture en psychanalyse : de la question anthropologique à la question éthique / A Phenomenology of Culture in Psychoanalysis: From the anthropological question to the ethical question. Samuel LÉZÉ · 2026, Sabrina Merabet Berdedouch, PhD defense, Paris Cité, Clinical psychology, Epistemology (+...)

https://www.academia.edu/180864266/Une_ph%C3%A9nom%C3%A9nologie_de_la_culture_en_psychanalyse_de_la_question_anthropologique_%C3%A0_la_question_%C3%A9thique_A_Phenomenology_of_Culture_in_Psychoanalysis_From_the_anthropological_question_to_the_ethical_question?email_work_card=title When culture emerges within the psychoanalytic session what does it teach us about the place from which it stems, and about the tacit values of its clinical judgments? Drawing on a phenomenology of culture, this thesis proposes a rereading of the history of psychoanalysis organized around two paradigmatic questions: the anthropological question ("What is a human being?") and the ethical question ("How to be human?"). The defended hypothesis is that the different conceptions of culture mobilized in psychoanalysis involve not only representations of the human being, but also distinct conceptions of psychoanalytic practice itself. The analysis highlights a historical and clinical shift: while the first paradigm tends to conceive of psychoanalysis as a process of culturalization, the second leads to thinking of the cure as a work of deculturalization of the "kulturellen Triebunterdrückung" containing both the cultural presuppositions of the analyst and the cultural identifications of the patient. Furthermore, the tacit presence of the culturalization process guides clinical judgment, whereas the ethical question reveals its operativity, as well as the ways in which listening can be reduced or even obstructed. The thesis thus shows how the psychoanalytic session can be conceived as a site of deculturalization, producing within the treatment a passage through culture and an opening to the ethics of the Subject.