Institution and Passivity

Foreword by Claude Lefort
Editors' Note to the French Edition
Translators' Note

Part 1. Institution in Personal and Public History
Introduction
Institution and Life
Institution of a Feeling
The Institution of a Work of Art
Institution of a Domain of Knowledge
The Field of Culture
Historical Institution: Particularity and Universality
Summary for Thursday's Course: Institution in Personal and Public History
Endnotes for the Course on Institution

Part 2. The Problem of Passivity: Sleep, the Unconscious, Memory
Philosophy and the Phenomenon of Passivity
For an Ontology of the Perceived World
Sleep
Perceptual Consciousness and Imagining Consciousness
Symbolism
Dreams
The Freudian Unconscious
Delusions: Gradiva
The Case of Dora
The Problem of Memory

Appendix: Three Notes on the Freudian Unconscious
Summary for Monday's Course: The Problem of Passivity: Sleep, the Unconscious, Memory
Reading Notes on Proust
Reading Notes on Freud
Endnotes for the Course on Passivity
Bibliography of Texts Relevant to the Courses on Institution and Passivity

Index