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Action and Reaction: The Life and Adventures of a Couple

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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of “action” and “reaction”

What is meant by reactionary politics? What do biologists mean when they speak of the interaction between life and its surroundings? Why was the term “abreaction” invented and later abandoned by the first generation of psychoanalysts? These are but a few of the questions the internationally renowned scholar Jean Starobinski answers in his latest work on the conceptual histo...