This thesis explores the implications of René Girard’s mimetic theory on Genesis 1 and 2 in the Old Testament. It tests the extent to which Genesis 1 and 2 are structured sacrificially or mythically as outlined by Girard. René Girard’s theory is summarized and clarified as to how the theory can be applied to biblical texts. In addition, Girard’s theory is explained in the context of theory-making in late modernity, and critiques of Girard from biblical, anthropological, sociological, and theological perspectives are addressed. A sacrificial structure is explored in Genesis and Exodus that informs the exegesis of Genesis 1 and 2. The critical elements in Girard’s scapegoat mechanism—acquisitive desire leading to rivalry, crisis, and ultimately to an expulsion—are examined in the expulsion of the Hebrews from Egypt (Exodus 1) and the expulsions of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis (Gen 12-21). A particular pattern takes shape that structures the narratives in the Pentateuch. An exegesis of Israel’s narrative of origins in Genesis 1 and 2 follows, incorporating Girard’s theoretical insights with higher critical methods conventionally employed to the Old Testament. The thesis discovers striking parallels with Israel’s narrative of origins. They are indeed sacrificially structured, but they also interrogate that structure and describe an alternative sacrificial response. The sacrifice that Yahweh instigates dismantles the mythical structure even as it moves through the sequence. The thesis concludes with a validation of Girard’s theory and explains how Girard’s theory can be useful to the current exegetical tasks. / Biblical and Ancient studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

Esta tese aborda algumas questões que envolvem a formação e o trabalho de psicólogos em instituições públicas ao propor uma perspectiva de análise que privilegia a dimensão das relações intersubjetivas (grupo) como fundamentais à compreensão do campo institucional, a partir da referência teórica da Psicologia Social, de Pichon-Rivière; da Análise Transicional, de René Kaës e das contribuições de José Bleger. Apoia-se na Análise Institucional do Discurso (Guirado) para propor um recorte metodológico que toma o conceito de vínculo como unidade de análise dos fenômenos institucionais e como constituição do sujeito psíquico, nas várias dimensões de sua determinação: intrapsíquica, intersubjetiva (consciente e inconsciente) e transubjetiva, e nos processos psíquicos grupais e institucionais que se manifestam pelas suas malhas, amarrações, pactos, rupturas, enrijecimentos etc. Trabalha-se com a noção de sujeito do inconsciente enquanto sujeito do grupo (Kaës) para pensar as relações que ele estabelece no campo institucional para realização de sua tarefa na instituição. O campo de investigação constitui-se de relatórios elaborados por alunos graduação do IPUSP para a parte prática da disciplina Processos Grupais (visita a uma instituição pública). Como resultado de análise, evidencia-se promover uma formação em Psicologia centralizada no grupo e no âmbito do coletivo para a construção de uma postura de psicólogo pesquisador voltado ao campo institucional (como trabalhador ou consultor). Para isso, exige-se a ampliação das articulações entre instituições de formação e trabalho, no estabelecimento de espaços de troca pelos quais a formação do psicólogo realize-se entre ambos. O trabalho do psicólogo pesquisador nas instituições, orientado pela Análise Institucional do Vínculo e indissociavelmente realizado pelo dispositivo de grupo, estabelece-se no cumprimento da função de intermediário nas relações institucionais de forma a criar espaços de transicionalidade que contribuam no trabalho psíquico grupal, na superação de obstáculos, na geração de processos de transformação e mudança e no cumprimento da tarefa social da instituição / This thesis discusses some issues of the university education and the work of psychologists in public institutions by proposing a perspective of analyses which emphasizes the dimension of intersubjective relations (the group) as central in order to comprehend the institutional field. Its theoretical basis is the Social Psychology (Pichon-Rivière), the Transitional Analyses (René Kaës) and Blegers contributions. It is also supported from the contributions of the Institutional Analyses of the Discourse (Guirado), to propose a methodological frame which considers the concept of bond as a unity of analyses of institutional phenomena as well as in the constitution of the psychic subject, in the various dimensions of its determination such as: intrapsychic, intersubjective (conscious and unconscious) and transubjective; and also of the psychic grupal and institutional processes which are expressed by the meshes, moorings, pacts, stiffening, disruptions etc. It has been worked with the concept of subject of the unconcious as being subject of group for to think its relationships in the institutional field for the accomplishment of its institutional task. The field of investigation is composed by reports elaborated by students of degree at IPUSP for the discipline Processes Group (visiting a public institution). The main results of the analyses show the great importance of promoting a university education centralized in the group and the collective scope in order to organize a training of the psychologist as a researcher of institutional field (as worker or consultant). For so, it is required the work of promoting the links among university education and work institutions towards the creation of exchanges possibilities in which the university education could take place in both spaces. The work of psychologist researcher in the institutions, driven by the Institutional Analysis of the Bound and inextricably develloped by the group as a device, is developed when it assumes the function of the intermediary in the institutional relationships and generates transitional spaces that contribute to the grupal psychic work of surpassing barriers, in the process of change and transformation and the accomplishment of institution social task

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROGERIO CAVALCANTE DE MORAIS.pdf: 2888343 bytes, checksum: 703c15350891bd366f004d12d08a2c12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-19 / This thesis aims to establish relationships between different artistic systems involving intertextualities and relations between text and image. We analyze homological procedures between them. Selected texts from different periods, styles and language system. These texts are listed in order to provide readings that can mobilize fruitful way of the senses. The corpus is made up of the stories; "The telltale heart," Edgar Allan Poe, "Love", by Clarice Lispector, and screens; "Luncheon on the Grass" by Édouard Manet, and "Lovers" by René Magritte. We analyze the existing dialogue in the look between the two languages, verbal and plastic-visual. The work is theoretical basis authors dealing with intertextuality as well as analog and homological procedures addressing different systems. We demonstrate how the game looks permeates and immobilizes the form of artistic training. / Esta dissertação se propõe a estabelecer relações entre sistemas artísticos distintos envolvendo intertextualidades e relações entre texto e imagem. Analisaremos procedimentos homológicos entre eles. Para isso, selecionamos textos de diferentes épocas, estilos e sistema de linguagem. Esses textos serão relacionados de modo a propiciar leituras que possam mobilizar de maneira profícua os sentidos. O corpus é constituído pelos contos; O coração denunciador , de Edgar Allan Poe, Amor , de Clarice Lispector, e as telas; Almoço na Relva , de Édouard Manet, e Os amantes , de René Magritte. Analisaremos o diálogo existente no olhar entre as duas linguagens, verbal e plástico-visual. O trabalho tem como embasamento teórico, autores que tratam da intertextualidade bem como dos procedimentos analógicos e homológicos abordando sistemas diferentes. Demonstraremos como o jogo de olhares permeia e imobiliza a forma de capacitação artística.

This thesis explores the implications of René Girard’s mimetic theory on Genesis 1 and 2 in the Old Testament. It tests the extent to which Genesis 1 and 2 are structured sacrificially or mythically as outlined by Girard. René Girard’s theory is summarized and clarified as to how the theory can be applied to biblical texts. In addition, Girard’s theory is explained in the context of theory-making in late modernity, and critiques of Girard from biblical, anthropological, sociological, and theological perspectives are addressed. A sacrificial structure is explored in Genesis and Exodus that informs the exegesis of Genesis 1 and 2. The critical elements in Girard’s scapegoat mechanism—acquisitive desire leading to rivalry, crisis, and ultimately to an expulsion—are examined in the expulsion of the Hebrews from Egypt (Exodus 1) and the expulsions of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis (Gen 12-21). A particular pattern takes shape that structures the narratives in the Pentateuch. An exegesis of Israel’s narrative of origins in Genesis 1 and 2 follows, incorporating Girard’s theoretical insights with higher critical methods conventionally employed to the Old Testament. The thesis discovers striking parallels with Israel’s narrative of origins. They are indeed sacrificially structured, but they also interrogate that structure and describe an alternative sacrificial response. The sacrifice that Yahweh instigates dismantles the mythical structure even as it moves through the sequence. The thesis concludes with a validation of Girard’s theory and explains how Girard’s theory can be useful to the current exegetical tasks. / Biblical and Ancient studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

Le Cercle de la Russie neuve est couramment présenté comme le lieu d’origine du « marxisme à la française » ; à savoir, d’une pensée marxiste reconduite au matérialisme des Lumières, définie en 1939 comme « rationalisme moderne » et qui sera, à partir de l’après-guerre, l’une des références idéologiques majeures du PCF. Et pourtant, les premiers travaux de ce groupe –dont le rôle joué dans l’introduction du matérialisme dialectique dans le débat philosophique en France est méconnu – sont consacrés à la démonstration de l’hétérogénéité du marxisme à la tradition rationaliste et matérialiste française, en proposant en revanche une lecture hégélianisante de la philosophie de Marx. Pour décrire le procès qui a conduit à ce véritable renversement de sens, et identifier les instances qui en étaient à l’origine, il ne suffit pas de remonter aux écrits des auteurs se réclamant du marxisme, pour les rendre à nouveau lisibles : il s’agit plutôt d’en suivre les thèses au-delà de leur formulation, dans leurs effets ainsi que dans leur interaction avec le champ idéologique dans lequel elles interviennent et qui à son tour les surdétermine. A la lumière de cette double forme d’existence de la philosophie marxiste – en tant que théorie, dans son élaboration, et en tant qu’idéologie, dans son activation – il est possible de réinscrire l’histoire de son introduction en France dans sa problématique originaire, et par là de l’interroger au-delà de la marque du stalinisme qui lui a été imprimée et qui en recouvre comme une pierre tombale sa propre spécificité. / The Cercle de la Russie neuve is commonly described as the place of origin of the “marxisme à la français”, namely, a Marxist thought reduced to Enlightenment materialism, and defined in 1939 as “modern rationalism”. And yet, at first the work of this group was aimed to demonstrate the heterogeneity of Marxism to the French rationalist and materialist tradition, proposing instead a Hegelian reading of Marx's philosophy.

Esta tese aborda algumas questões que envolvem a formação e o trabalho de psicólogos em instituições públicas ao propor uma perspectiva de análise que privilegia a dimensão das relações intersubjetivas (grupo) como fundamentais à compreensão do campo institucional, a partir da referência teórica da Psicologia Social, de Pichon-Rivière; da Análise Transicional, de René Kaës e das contribuições de José Bleger. Apoia-se na Análise Institucional do Discurso (Guirado) para propor um recorte metodológico que toma o conceito de vínculo como unidade de análise dos fenômenos institucionais e como constituição do sujeito psíquico, nas várias dimensões de sua determinação: intrapsíquica, intersubjetiva (consciente e inconsciente) e transubjetiva, e nos processos psíquicos grupais e institucionais que se manifestam pelas suas malhas, amarrações, pactos, rupturas, enrijecimentos etc. Trabalha-se com a noção de sujeito do inconsciente enquanto sujeito do grupo (Kaës) para pensar as relações que ele estabelece no campo institucional para realização de sua tarefa na instituição. O campo de investigação constitui-se de relatórios elaborados por alunos graduação do IPUSP para a parte prática da disciplina Processos Grupais (visita a uma instituição pública). Como resultado de análise, evidencia-se promover uma formação em Psicologia centralizada no grupo e no âmbito do coletivo para a construção de uma postura de psicólogo pesquisador voltado ao campo institucional (como trabalhador ou consultor). Para isso, exige-se a ampliação das articulações entre instituições de formação e trabalho, no estabelecimento de espaços de troca pelos quais a formação do psicólogo realize-se entre ambos. O trabalho do psicólogo pesquisador nas instituições, orientado pela Análise Institucional do Vínculo e indissociavelmente realizado pelo dispositivo de grupo, estabelece-se no cumprimento da função de intermediário nas relações institucionais de forma a criar espaços de transicionalidade que contribuam no trabalho psíquico grupal, na superação de obstáculos, na geração de processos de transformação e mudança e no cumprimento da tarefa social da instituição / This thesis discusses some issues of the university education and the work of psychologists in public institutions by proposing a perspective of analyses which emphasizes the dimension of intersubjective relations (the group) as central in order to comprehend the institutional field. Its theoretical basis is the Social Psychology (Pichon-Rivière), the Transitional Analyses (René Kaës) and Blegers contributions. It is also supported from the contributions of the Institutional Analyses of the Discourse (Guirado), to propose a methodological frame which considers the concept of bond as a unity of analyses of institutional phenomena as well as in the constitution of the psychic subject, in the various dimensions of its determination such as: intrapsychic, intersubjective (conscious and unconscious) and transubjective; and also of the psychic grupal and institutional processes which are expressed by the meshes, moorings, pacts, stiffening, disruptions etc. It has been worked with the concept of subject of the unconcious as being subject of group for to think its relationships in the institutional field for the accomplishment of its institutional task. The field of investigation is composed by reports elaborated by students of degree at IPUSP for the discipline Processes Group (visiting a public institution). The main results of the analyses show the great importance of promoting a university education centralized in the group and the collective scope in order to organize a training of the psychologist as a researcher of institutional field (as worker or consultant). For so, it is required the work of promoting the links among university education and work institutions towards the creation of exchanges possibilities in which the university education could take place in both spaces. The work of psychologist researcher in the institutions, driven by the Institutional Analysis of the Bound and inextricably develloped by the group as a device, is developed when it assumes the function of the intermediary in the institutional relationships and generates transitional spaces that contribute to the grupal psychic work of surpassing barriers, in the process of change and transformation and the accomplishment of institution social task

Orientador: Mário Luiz Frungillo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T15:02:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Brito_MelissaBarros_M.pdf: 1433251 bytes, checksum: 9c3f5fbc60205a8fc202ea5ca8d5e9a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a construção do bode expiatório de José Saramago à luz das teorias de René Girard. Para analisar a construção de Saramago, foram eleitos dois de seus romances: Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995) e Ensaio sobre a lucidez (2004), livros que mantêm entre si uma continuação. O foco desta dissertação está voltado para a personagem mulher do médico, que divide o espaço da narrativa com outros que serão de fundamental importância para o desenvolvimento da trama. É essa personagem quem faz o papel de bode expiatório nas tramas de Saramago. A leitura dos romances de Saramago sob esse viés é possível em razão das teorias e estudos elaborados por René Girard, que procura compreender e teorizar o desejo mimético, a violência fundadora e a escolha (construção) do bode expiatório. As teorias defendidas por René Girard acerca da escolha do bode expiatório ¿ desde o seu surgimento até o seu sacrifício para o surgimento de uma nova sociedade ¿ nos ajuda a compreender os movimentos criados por José Saramago no decorrer dos dois romances e a importância que a personagem mulher do médico tem para ajudar a discutir as relações de poder e, principalmente, para revelar a crítica de José Saramago aos estados tidos como democráticos. Neste trabalho me interessa, sobretudo, observar o percurso desta personagem desde o primeiro romance em que aparece como uma espécie de heroína abnegada até o segundo romance, quando se torna vítima do sistema ¿ portanto o bode expiatório ¿, até a sua execução, e quais são as questões que estão envolvidas na construção criada por Saramago para melhor compreender a crítica aos estados democráticos em suas obras / Abstract: This work aims to analyse the construction of José Saramago¿s scapegoat with the help of René Girard¿s theoretical writings. In order to do it, two novels writen by Saramago were selected: Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness, 1995) and Ensaio sobre a Lucidez (Seeing, 2004), whose themes derive one from another. The focus is put on the main character, named simply as doctor¿s wife, who shares the narrative space with other characteres responsible for the developing of the plot. It¿s doctor¿s wife who plays the role of the scapegoat in Saramago¿s novels. The reading of both books from the point of view of Girard¿s works is possible because there are a sort of resemblances between the novels and the theory: the mimetic desire, the founding violence e the choosing of the scapegoat are all themes and subjects that belong both to Saramago¿s literature and Girard¿s thought. Finally, the work also wants to understand the trajectory of doctor¿s wife from the first novel, where she shows herself as some sort of unselfish heroine, to the second novel, when she becomes a victim of the political system ¿ therefore, the scapegoat ¿ until her execution. The goal is to reveal what is behind the construction of the character in order to be able to comprehend the critics that Saramago draws to the democratic system in his literary works / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestra em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T08:54:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Closel_RegisAugustusBars_M.pdf: 2038312 bytes, checksum: 7c1b1af36416b37e4e7597571df3f57d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem por objetivo propor um diálogo entre duas obras dramáticas de grande significância, Ricardo III e As Troianas, no cânone de seus autores, respectivamente, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) e Lucius Annaeus Sêneca (4 a.C - 65 d.C). A premissa inicial é a relação tradicional entre ambos, que atribui ao tragediógrafo elisabetano uma influência textual, temática e estilística originária do filósofo e tragediógrafo latino. Para o estudo dessas relações, limitadas ao escopo de duas obras, o trabalho foi dividido em três partes. No primeiro capítulo é realizado um percurso sobre toda a historiografia da crítica da influência que Sêneca teria exercido sobre os dramaturgos que escreveram durante a segunda metade do século XVI, na Inglaterra. Observa-se, principalmente, como a visão e a metodologia de se tratar o tema da influência se altera, ao longo dos anos, chegando, por exemplo, a ser negada por alguns críticos durante certo tempo, além da observação do delineamento do próprio objeto. Toma-se o cuidado, durante todo o trabalho de não fazer opção a favor ou negar a presença de Sêneca para não incorrer em extremismos. No segundo capítulo, busca-se, com base nos resultados do primeiro capítulo, a leitura histórica dos elementos temáticos e estilísticos lidos como derivados de ou influenciados por Sêneca. Neste ponto o foco distancia-se do campo de discussão crítica do fenômeno para o campo de crítica histórico-literária e os objetos focados, agora, são exatamente aqueles que anteriormente foram levantados como ?"senequianos". No terceiro capítulo, conhecida a história da influência e tendo sido feita uma gama de opções e leituras sobre a época de Shakespeare, inicia-se a leitura das duas obras. Tal abordagem preambular se fez necessária para que houvesse um embasamento tanto da crítica da discussão da influência, como da leitura histórica da cultura que produziu Ricardo III. Foi feita a opção de seguir com a leitura de René Girard sobre os conceitos de Teoria Mimética e Crise de Diferenças, pois tocam em noções basilares do mundo Elisabetano, apresentando, portanto, uma atmosfera na qual os diálogos poderiam situar relações de aproximação e afastamento entre a dupla de obras escolhida. Observa-se uma leitura mítica, muito rica politicamente, ao trabalhar com a história/mito conhecidos por ambas as obras / Abstract: This dissertation aims to propose a dialogue between two dramatic works of great importance, Richard III and Trojan Women, both canonic for their authors, respectively, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD). The initial premise is the traditional relationship between them, which presupposes that the Elizabethan tragedies have textual, thematic and stylistic influence of the Latin philosopher and tragedian. In order to study these relationships, restricted to the scope of the two referred plays, the dissertation was divided into three parts. The first chapter is about Seneca's influence on playwrights who wrote along the second half of the sixteenth century in England. It focuses mainly the vision and methodology used to study the issue of influence and changes of views over the years, reaching, for example, the fact that the influence was denied by some critics for some time. It also observes the outline of the object - the relation between plays - itself. Along these considerations, I was aware that I should not propose or deny the influence of Seneca in order not to incur in extremism. The second chapter, based on the results of the first chapter, seeks to read the historical interpretation of stylistic and thematic elements as derived from or influenced by Seneca. At this point, the analysis moves away from the critical discussion to approach the field of historical and literary criticism. The focused objects are exactly those that have previously been raised as "senequians", like the blank verse, the tyrant and the presence of ghosts. In the third chapter begins the interpretation of both tragedies. This preliminary approach was necessary in order to have a critical foundation for the discussion of influence, as that one produced by historical reading of Richard III. The mimetic theory of René Girard and the Crisis of Differences offered fundamental notions for the Elizabethan world, which presented interlocution between both tragedies, so that it was possible to examine approaches and distances between the two chosen plays. It was observed a very rich mythical and political relation among the plays using the known versions of history/myth / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Dans « En songeant à un art poétique », Jules Supervielle définit sa poésie comme une entreprise d’humanisation. Quelle acception convient-Il de donner à ce terme, et en quoi se révèle-T-Il pertinent pour aborder l’œuvre de l’écrivain ? C’est à cette question que tente de répondre cette thèse, en cherchant à déterminer le sens qu’il convient de donner à l’humanisation à partir du double héritage de l’humanisme de la Renaissance et de l’humanitarisme romantique, et en s’appuyant sur des manuscrits et des correspondances en partie inédits. Dans une première partie, l’étude de la théorisation de l’humanisation chez Supervielle nous amène à mener une réflexion ressortissant de l’histoire des idées et de l’histoire littéraire, en nous penchant sur l’idée de la littérature développée par l’écrivain, et en analysant le rôle joué par Jean Paulhan et par René Étiemble dans l’apparition de cette idée. La seconde partie analyse la genèse diachronique de l’humanisation, au sein d’un essai de géographie poétique qui se focalise sur le tournant que constituent les années 1920 et 1930. La troisième partie est consacrée à l’étude de la genèse synchronique, considérant l’apparition de l’humanisation dans les divers états d’un texte, en poésie, en prose et au théâtre. L’étude de l’humanisation dans l’œuvre de Jules Supervielle permet ainsi de préciser le paysage littéraire et l’interpénétration des idées de la littérature qui se développent dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, en marge du surréalisme. / In « En songeant à un art poétique », Jules Supervielle defines his poetry as an attempt at humanization. How should this term be understood, and how does it enlighten Supervielle’s work ? In order to answer this question, this dissertation sets out to define the meaning of humanization through the lens of the double legacy of the humanism of the Renaissance and the humanitarianism of Romanticism, and in the light of partly unpublished manuscripts and letters. In the first part, this dissertation studies how Supervielle theorizes humanization. It leads to an analysis of a history of ideas and of literature, in order to define Supervielle’s conception of literature and in order to assess Jean Paulhan’s and René Étiemble’s roles in this theorization. The second part is a chronological study of humanization that takes the form of an essay of poetic geography. It focuses particularly on the work of the 1920’s and 1930’s. The third part is a genetic one : we study how humanization appears in the different states of a poem, a prose and a drama. The Study of humanization in Supervielle’s works enables us to have a better understanding of the literary landscape and of the entanglement of literary ideas in the first half of the twentieth century, in the margins of Surrealism.

Ce travail a pour objet une étude théorique des formes de société politique et des contraintes de production de leur unité collective. Le questionnement qui l’anime interroge les modalités de base génératrices d’une dimension collective, par laquelle faire tenir les agents sociaux ensemble, dans un espace commun. Ces formes sont considérées à partir de l’enseignement apporté par l’œuvre de Marcel Gauchet. Les travaux de ce dernier ont approfondi les modes différenciés de structuration de l’existence collective, selon le déploiement d’un fonctionnement autonome des collectivités humaines-sociales, par extraction hors de l’hétéronomie. Autour de l’instauration et de la modification possible des configurations d’un espace humain-social, il s’agit de s’interroger spécifiquement sur les contraintes de mise en forme, inhérentes aux possibilités de déploiement de cet espace. Cette formation interne sera appréhendée par un angle dynamique, issu des travaux fournis par l’œuvre morphologique de René Thom. Au travers de la théorie des catastrophes (TC), il a dressé une liste de formes stables et de processus de changement, instables dans le temps, mais robustes dans les dimensions qui en permettent le déploiement. Depuis l’analyse d’un système dynamique nécessaire à l’intelligence de ce déploiement, une articulation problématique se découvre : l’organisation de la dimension collective dans l’immanence, et la gestion politique de la dimension historique, incitent à questionner l’historicité interne des collectivités, à partir de la notion de processus morphologique et selon les déformations que ce processus peut connaître. Les éclairages que cette notion de processus apporte, indiquent l’effectivité d’un travail de la forme, dans l’étude du tenir ensemble des collectivités politiques. / This work aims to understand the way societies are shaped and to identify the constraints within they move themselves. It tries to answer the question of how social agents turn out to act collectively in shared social space, in other words to make society. This work take forms into account following Marcel Gauchet’s work. Indeed Marcel Gauchet has managed to grasp the differentiated patterns structuring collective life, characterising them as resulting from the deployment of an autonomous functioning of human-social communities, by extraction from heteronomy. The present work goes on step further and, considering the establishment and possible change of the configurations of a human-social space, it wonders about the constraining framework of the formation of this space. This internal shaping is looked into from René Thom’s morphological approach. Indeed, through his Catastrophe Theory (CT), René Thom compiled a list of stable forms and processes of change, unstable over time, but steady as far as the conditions of their formation are concerned. It accentuates the core issue: the organization of the collective dimension through immanence, and the political management of the historical dimension drive us to examine the inner historicity of communities from the concept of morphological process and according to the distortions it may undergo. This concept proves useful to understand the morphological dynamic which enable communities to hold together.