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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

"mouvement de l'esprit"

English translation:

mental movement

Added to glossary by Raymonde Gagnier
Mar 27, 2007 10:58
17 yrs ago
French term

"mouvement de l'esprit"

French to English Social Sciences Linguistics freudian psychoanalysis
This expression is used to define Freud's Witz in the general context of Wit in relation to the unconscious. Is it simply "a movement of the spirit", or a more complex notion?
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mental movement

I think it has more to do with "avoir de l'esprit" than with the spirit as such. The intelligence rather than the soul...

"Wit on the other hand is a tendentious mental movement, attempting to find ..."
www.digitalpeirce.fee.unicamp.br/p-witwir.htm

mental movement of the living organism toward an excitational. state of quiescence. ... Freud, S. : Wit and its relation to the unconscious. ...
www.springerlink.com/index/G602478023N16187.pdf

This means that a study of Carew's wit is a study in what distinguishes him from ... and attempt to track the movements of the mind, as Donne's images do, ...
www.geocities.com/magdamun/carewking.html

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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Yes, I began thinking along these lines and eventually translated it as "mental function". Many thanks."
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