course notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 1908-1961 creator Lefort, Claude 1924-2010​ writer of foreword Darmaillacq, Dominique. Ménasé, Stéphanie 1968- Lawlor, Leonard 1954- translator Massey, Heath. translator text bibliography ilu Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 2010 monographic eng fre xxxvi, 276 pages ; 23 cm. Institution and Passivity is a collection of course notes taken from classes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty taught at the Collège de France in 1954‑1955. This work is philosophically significant as a transitional text in Merleau‑Ponty’s thought, filling in ideas between his earlier works and later works such as The Visible and the Invisible and Signs. 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 -- 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. Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; foreword by Claude Lefort ; text established by Dominique Darmaillacq, Claude Lefort, and Stéphanie Ménasé ; translated from the French by Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey. "Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)." Includes bibliographical references and index. Phenomenology Fenomenología Ontology Ontología Philosophy History 19th century Philosophy History 20th century Filosofía Historia B 2430 M564i 2010 194 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 9780810126893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0810126893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2010000279 IEN/DLC 100107 20260302095403.0 16044292 eng