Man in Marxist Theory and the Psychology of Personality

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Lucien Sève was a French philosopher, communist and political activist. He was an active member of the French Communist Party from 1950 to 2010. His 1969 work Marxisme et théorie de la personnalité has been translated into 25 different languages. Sève died on 23 March 2020 of Coronavirus disease 2019 Cover About the series Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword I. AN EMBRYONIC SCIENCE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY I. A Science of Fundamental Importance (1) Psychology and politics (2) Psychology and anthropology (3) Future prospects of the psychology of personality II. An Incomplete Science (1) Problems of definition (2) Problems of basic concepts (3) A science in question III. The Contribution of Marxism (1) Psychology and philosophy (2) Dialectical materialism—an epistemological guide (3) Historical materialism—foundation of the human sciences Notes to Chapter I II. HUMAN PERSONALITY AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM I. The Marxist Conception of Man (1) Philosophical humanism, theoretical antihumanism (2) The conception of man, from The German Ideology to Capital (3) Marxism as scientific anthropology and scientific humanism II. The Articulation of the Psychology of Personality with Marxism (1) The articulation from the side of Marxism (2) The articulation from the side of psychology (3) The central point: the Marxist analysis of labour Notes to Chapter II III. THE OBJECT OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY I. Psychology of Personality and Psychobiological Sciences (1) Natural relations and social relations between acts (2) The personality as a living system of social relations between acts (3) The mistakes of physiologism II. Psychology of Personality and Psychosocial Sciences (1) The paradoxes of social psychology (2) Forms of individuality and theory of the individual (3) The psychological sciences and their general articulation Notes to Chapter III IV. HYPOTHESES FOR A SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF PERSONALITY I. Preliminary Remarks II. Hypotheses (1) Basic concepts: acts, capacities and the problem of needs (2) Infrastructures and superstructures. Use-time (3) Laws of development and problems of expanded reproduction. Biography Notes to Chapter IV CONCLUSION: DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY POSTCRIPT TO THE SECOND EDITION POSTCRIPT TO THE THIRD EDITION BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS REFERRED TO