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Florent Poupart

The influence of identity ideologies on “psy” practices

Contemporary identity ideologies profoundly influence psychological practices by imposing a hypermoralization of social life, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a space of ideological validation rather than neutral analysis. Psychologist Florent Poupart warns us against this development, which is accompanied by a growing distrust of psychic life in its unconscious dimension, in favor of an ideal of transparency and moral purity.

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Florent Poupart February 5, 2025
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Alice Cabanat

“The Empire of Validity”: Introduction to the Notion of Validism

The term "validisme" is the French translation of "ableism", a concept that emerged in the 1960s and 70s in the context of disability studies and activist movements for the rights of people with disabilities, contesting a biomedical vision of disability and promoting a social approach. In France, this concept first emerged in activist circles and is now found in academic publications that denounce an "empire of validity" imposing oppressive standards on people with disabilities and calling for a "devalidation" of the dominant model. An extension of wokism (the alliance of communitarianism with an obsession with domination), this notion joins other intersectional analyses on power relations and sparks debates within the academic world about the influence of activism on research.

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Alice Cabanat February 3, 2025
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Mikhail Kostylev

Viking woman or non-binary? When woke “science” tears itself apart

All the "proof" of the deceased's non-binarity rests on these two absurd assertions. Since they are contradicted as soon as they are stated, the authors are safe from any criticism. The game will consist of forgetting these reservations as soon as we have finished writing them, and reasoning thereafter as if they were certain.

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Mikhail Kostylev 18th December 2024
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Pierre Vermeren

Gender? It doesn't exist

In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one's own, and to test one's virtues, one's body, one's fantasies, one's hopes and one's ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists, but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!

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Pierre Vermeren 3th December 2024
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Ludovic Dillenseger

PIR policy selected at the French Academy in Rome

Thus sacrificing to the spirit of the times - or, according to some, to an ideology that has become dominant and to which it would be appropriate to conform - the Académie de France in Rome now seems to often give the advantage, in its selection process, to projects that authorize themselves by questioning gender norms (and in particular "hetero-patriarchy"), by criticizing racism (designated as "systemic" or inherent in all institutions of Western societies, while anti-Semitism remains, in these approaches, and unsurprisingly, as a blind spot) or even by criticizing, against the backdrop of a global ecological crisis invested with an apocalyptic dimension, "extractive" and "neo-liberal" capitalism.

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Ludovic Dillenseger July 19, 2024