Michel de Certeau (Chambéry, 1925- Paris, 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. The city and arrondissement of Chambéry in Savoie, France, has been the historical capital of Savoy since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made it his seat. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ...

Michel de Certeau was born in 1925 in Chambéry, France. Certeau's education was eclectic. After obtaining degrees in classics and philosophy at the universities of Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris, he undertook religious training at a seminary in Lyon, where he entered the Jesuit order in 1950 and was ordained in 1956. Certeau initially entered the Jesuits hoping to do missionary work in China. In the same year of his ordination, Certeau became one of the first founders of the journal Christus, which he would actively be involved with for much of his life. In 1960 he earned his doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne after completing a thesis on the mystical writings of Jean-Joseph Surin. Certeau was greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud and was, along with Jacques Lacan, one of the founding members of L'Ecole Freudienne, an informal group which served as a focal point for French scholars interested in psychoanalysis. He came to public attention after publishing an article dealing with the events of May 1968. The Ancient Library American Philological Association LAnnée philologique Bibliotheca Augustana Classical associations worldwide at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Location within France Grenoble (Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ... City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... A seminary is a specialized university-like institution for the purpose of instructing students in religion, often in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. ... City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The Sorbonne is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of Paris or the University of Paris in its entirety. ... Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud [] (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, based on his theory that unconscious motives determine behavior, that particular kinds of unconscious thoughts and memories, especially sexual and aggressive ones, are the source of neurosis... Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. ... May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up. ...

Certeau went on to teach at several universities in locations as wide spread as Geneva, San Diego, and Paris. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he produced a string of works that demonstrated his interest in mysticism, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (known in French as Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ... San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... ... Look up Phenomenology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Phenomenology is a current in philosophy that takes the intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in conscious experience) as its starting point and tries to extract the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ...

To date, Certeau's most well-known and influential work in the United States has been The Practice of Everyday Life. In The Practice of Everyday Life, he combined his disparate scholarly interests to develop a theory of the productive consumptive activity inherent in everyday life. According to Certeau, everyday life is distinctive from other practices of daily existence because it is repetitive and unconscious. In this context, Certeau’s study of everyday life is neither the study of “popular culture,” nor is it necessarily the study of everyday resistances to regimes of power. Instead, Certeau attempts to outline the way individuals unconsciously navigate everything from city streets to literary texts. Originally published as (1974). ... Originally published as (1974). ... ...

The most influential aspect of The Practice of Everyday Life has emerged from scholarly interest in Certeau’s distinction between the concepts of strategy and tactics. Originally published as (1974). ... A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, as differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand. ... Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. ...

Major Works by Michel de Certeau

In French:

• La Culture au Pluriel. Union Generale d'Editions. 1974.
• L'Ecriture de l'Histoire. Editions Gallimard. 1975.
• La Fable Mystique. vol. 1, XVIe-XVIIe Siecle. Editions Gallimard. 1982.
• La Faiblesse de Croire. Edited by Luce Giard. Seuil. 1987.
• L'Invention du Quotidien. Vol. 1, Arts de Faire. Union générale d'éditions. 1974.
• With Dominique Julia and Jacques Revel. Une Politique de la Langue: La Révolution Française et les Patois, l'enquête de Grégoire. Gallimard. 1975.
• La Possession de Loudun. Gallimard. 1970.

In English:

• The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings. Translated by Tom Conley. University of Minnesota Press. 1998.
• The Certeau Reader. Edited by Graham Ward. Blackwell Publishers. 1999.
• Culture in the Plural. Translated by Tom Conley. University of Minnesota Press. 1998.
• Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Translated by Brain Massumi. University of Minnesota Press. 1986.
• The Mystic Fable: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translated by Michael B. Smith. University of Chicago Press. 1995.
• The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. University of California Press. 1984.
• With Luce Giard and Pierre Mayol. The Practice of Everyday Life. Vol. 2, Living and Cooking. Tanslated by Timothy J. Tomasik. University of Minnesota Press. 1998.
• The Possession at Loudun. University of Chicago Press. 2000.
• The Writing of History. Translated by Tom Conley. Columbia University Press. 1988.

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Works about Michel de Certeau

• Michel De Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other. By Jeremy Ahearne. Stanford University Press. 1996.
• Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist. By Ian Buchanan. Sage Press. 2000.
• Michel de Certeau: les chemins d'histoire. Edited by Christiàn Delacroix. Complex. 2002.
• Michel de Certeau: Le marcheur blessé. By François Dosse. Decouverte. 2002.