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Because it encompasses many fields of study, the act of gardening is difficult to define. In search of a theory, studies of gardens and landscaped spaces currently try to go beyond the scope of human sciences and take advantage of the comprehensive expertise of the natural sciences. This article provides an overview of a transdisciplinary personal experience based on three scenarios: plant conservation, restoration of historical gardens, and sensitive landscape experimentations. These individual examples seek to shed light on the real need for cross-disciplinary research in order to revise established tenets from a broader perspective.
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The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of social institutions when providing information to the state for crisis resolution. How is the public policy information system organized in the countries of the Americas and what role do universities play? This theoretical paper seeks to answer this question and explore the possibility of a paradigm shift for the university's role at the continental level. The methodology we have adopted is exploratory: we will compare cases published in digital media in both regions where universities were involved in studying phenomena triggered by the Covid-19 crisis. We will analyze these experiences in the light of two systems: the information creation system for public policy and the historical-cultural paradigm of human development. The results of our analysis show that the contemporary university can benefit from a broadening of its institutional role. This broadening would allow universities to undertake two strategic actions in the face of the key obstacles we have identified: (1) strengthen their academic offerings in the face of factors that go against the grain of higher education and (2) create greater compatibility between the knowledge generated within universities and the use that can be made of it by decision-makers.
Keywords: évidence, rôle de l'université, politique publique, enseignement supérieur, universités, evidence, public policy, role of the university, higher education, universities
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The “settings” of psychoanalytical work have evolved, because of external (social, political) constraints, or internal ones, i.e., the representations of the effects and processes of change in psychotherapeutic work. Nevertheless, one can remain a psychoanalyst while working in a plurality of contexts and settings. Psychoanalysis is not only defined by its praxis. One can defend, for example, an equivalence between the terms “psychoanalysis” and “psychoanalytic psychotherapy”, the latter referring to a practice which is adjusted to the patient's reality, particularly its clinical and social dimensions. Whatever the setting, whether or not it is a classical analysis, the basis of the psychoanalytic position remains the same. It is an open-minded position and is fundamentally “transdisciplinary”. Such a position is centred on the core aspects of the caring relation—not to be confused with its artifices—, and it transcends the specific features of the concrete setting. The transdisciplinary approach, in psychological care, implies a “sharing” of the caring function. Parental care is a paradigm within this transdisciplinarity. It is always “caring”, because parenthood consists in the care of the child or of the infantile part of the adult who is in care. In this way, parental caring is a « transdisciplinary invariant ». Finally, the psychoanalytical position is also a political position. Psychoanalysis does indeed have a political function: it protects an awareness of subjectivity. The psychoanalyst is expected to take into account the reality of the body as well as social realities, including the political. The adjustments made to psychoanalytical practice are often in answer to political constraints, and in themselves they represent a political act.
Keywords: psychanalyse, psychothérapie psychanalytique, position psychanalytique, position transdisciplinaire, parentalité soignante, invariant transdisciplinaire, position politique, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, psychoanalytical position, transdisciplinary position, caring parenthood, transdisciplinary invariant, political position