Background
Castoriadis, Cornelius was born on March 11, 1922 in Constantinople, Greece. Arrived in France, 1945. Son of Cesar and Sophia (Papachela) Castoriadis.
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Cornelius Castoriadis is a fascinating figure, not only because of his personal and intellectual background, but because of the extraordinary breadth of his interests and his ability to play the brilliant intellectual jester - all characteristics in abundant evidence in this collection of essays. In them, Castoriadis goes to the heart of deep philosophical issues raised but not answered by modern thought.The book presents his concerns with the development of analytical theories of psychology, language, and politics, all commonly rooted in the social and historical aspects of human creativity. It examines figures as diverse as Aristotle, Heidegger, Lacan, Marx, and Merleau-Ponty.Cornelius Castoriadis was for a long time a professional economist and is now a practicing psychoanalyst in Paris. He founded and became the main theoretician for the independent journal of the left, Socialisme ou Barbarie.
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economist Psychoanalyst Post-Marxist
Castoriadis, Cornelius was born on March 11, 1922 in Constantinople, Greece. Arrived in France, 1945. Son of Cesar and Sophia (Papachela) Castoriadis.
Master of Science in Law, Economic, Political Science, University Athens, 1942.
Economist then director statistics Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1948-1970. Private practice psychoanalysis, 1974-1997. Director studies social science Ecole Hautes Etudes, 1980-1997.
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Author: The Imaginary Institution of Society, 1975, England edition, 1987, Crossroads in the Labyrinth, 1978, England edition, 1983, Political and Social Writings, 2 vols., 1988. Founder, contributing author Socialism or Barbarism Journal, 1949-1966.
In his early work ( 1972 5), Cornélius Castoriadis developed a critique of leftand right-wing bureaucracies and of Marxist economies. This work is anti-totalitarian and anti-bureaucratic, it favours the project of a self-instituting and selfcreating society and aspires to individual and collective autonomy. His critical thinking has extended beyond this institutional analysis into psychoanalysis, the critique of war and East-West relations.
Thus, his later work seeks to foster people’s creative assertion of their autonomy in opposition to the expansion of rational mastery through the technoscientific destruction and transformation of nature and society.
Music, swimming, cosmology.
Marx and Freud.
Married Piera Aulagnier, April 11, 1967 (divorced 1978). Married Zoe Christophides, June 3, 1980. Children: Sparta-Sonia, Cybele.