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Parisian psychoanalysis

Jeroen Kuiper 12 February 2010

The bookstore as mirror

It is always a small pleasure to visit the local bookstore in another city. I cherish the illusion that the books at offer is a mirror of the local issues. An illusion, because if you enter the selexyzzzzzz bookstore Kooyker in Leiden and take a glance at the shelves 'philosophy' on the first floor, you'll soon descend the stairs again, deeply disappointed. The offer of two whole shelves is mainly of works in popular philosophy, with an occasional original work from the canon, usually only in Dutch translation, and a unsaleable leftover from a local philosophy course. (Fortunately, visiting Burgersdijk brings some relief, but here also the philosophy 'division' is reduced and condemned to a small corner). That in the local philosophy institute the dogma "one should read in the original language" reigns (rightly so, but I am trained there), you would never have guessed.

Parisian psychoanalysis

With this method, in advance falcified and declared an illusion, I entered the Paris bookshops Gilbert Joseph/Jeune. The supply 'philosophy' is very good, obviously everything only in French translation, even the English books. Surprisingly, however, the equally large supply 'psychoanalysis' and, no, not as another name for psychology, but next to it, ...
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