Cornelius Castoriadis

Cornelius Castoriadis
Cornelius Castoriadis
Born	11 March 1922; Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	26 December 1997 (aged 75); Paris, France
Nationality	Greek, French
Other names	Corneille Castoriadis, "Pierre Chaulieu," "Paul Cardan," "Jean-Marc Coudray"
Education	8th Gymnasium of Athens; University of Athens; (1937–1942: B.A., 1942); University of Paris; (Dr. cand., 1946–1948); University of Nanterre; (DrE, 1980)
Notable work	List The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975); Crossroads in the Labyrinth (1978–1999, 6 vols.); ;
Spouse	List Catherine May; (m. unkn.–unkn.; divorced); Piera Aulagnier; (m. 1968–1984; divorced); Zoe Christofidi; (m. unkn.–1997; his death); ;
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Post-phenomenology; Western Marxism/post-Marxism (early); Libertarian socialism (late); Revolutionary socialism; Classical republicanism; Philosophy of praxis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis;
Institutions	École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Main interests	Libertarian socialism; political philosophy; developmental psychology; psychoanalysis; economics; sovietology; social criticism; ecology; philosophy of science; philosophy of history; ontology; epistemology; aesthetics;
Notable ideas	List The Project of Autonomy,; the radical imaginary underlying social institutions,; radical imagination,; the social imaginary, social imaginary significations,; proto-representation (Ur-Vorstellung), the monadic core of the psyche,; "the unconscious exists only as an indissociably representative/affective/intentional flux,"; rejecting the reduction of representation to perception,; "the first delegation of the drive in the psyche is the affect," the psyche and the anonymous collective are irreducible to each other, sublimation as the process by means of which the psyche is forced to replace its private objects of cathexis with objects that have value through their social institution, social fabrication of the individual, social constructionism, lability of investments (labilité des investissements), identifying representational activity as prior to reflection, being-in-itself as creative of its own proper world,; idiogenesis/koinogenesis, the world as a product of Chaos, ontological magma,; identitary-ensemblist logic (logique ensembliste-identitaire), the Cantorian definition of 'set' implies the schema of separation, proto-institutions of legein and teukhein,; Wo Ich bin, soll Es auftauchen ("Where Ego is, Id must spring forth"), conflict of desires, the Social-Historical, the methodology of elucidation (élucidation), circle of creation, the paradox of history, society's leaning on the first natural stratum, "creation is ex nihilo, but it is neither in nihilo nor cum nihilo,"; vis formandi, radical alterity (altérité radicale), time as creation/destruction of forms, societas instituans/societas instituta, abolition of the wage system, administration of justice by popular tribunals, plan factory, democratic planning, totalitarian (Soviet) vs. fragmented (Western) bureaucratic capitalism, the "final contradiction" of capitalism, relatively autonomous evolution of technique, liberal oligarchy, pseudo-rational mastery, the nomos–physis distinction, three spheres of social action (oikos, the private/private or domestic sphere; agora, the public/private or implicitly political sphere; ekklesia, the public/public or explicitly political sphere), ecological self-limitation (degrowth),; Gödelian argument, the Greco-Occidental particuliarity, democracy as procedure (formalist) vs. democracy as regime (substantivist), criticism of structuralism (logicism) and functionalism (physicalism), criticism of spiritualist and materialist dialectic, criticism of Marxian economics, capital as power, criticism of Marx's theory of history, criticism of Lacanianism, criticism of the poststructuralist theory of the subject, criticism of the New Philosophers ;

Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.

His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles.

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