This article focuses on the shift in sensitivities that took place between the 1980s and 2019 toward psychological suffering in Algeria. Promoters of psychotherapy showed an increase in receptivity-via the media, public authorities, and the general population-to their practices and discourses during this period. Based on professional literature, interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts, and newspaper articles and essays, this article considers the following aspects: the use of psychotherapy, the authority of psychoanalytic/psychopathological analyses, and the ethics of relation in politics. Taking a social and cultural history of politics approach, it traces the discontinuous politicization of psychotherapy over the course of events (namely the uprising of 1988, the civil war of the 1990s, and the 2019 popular movement) and examines the interactions between the state, popular mobilizations, and the psychotherapists. The civil war of the 1990s coincided with the normalization of "trauma" on a global scale, and procedures for the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder were put in place in Algeria from 1997 onwards. In this process of legitimizing psychological suffering and its treatment, the promoters of psychotherapy who belonged to the less visible margins gained authority. The year-long protest movement (2019) against the regime performed the ethics of relation, focusing on human relations, reflexivity, and living together. Promoters of psychotherapy identified consistently with the political
L'IMAGINATION REBELLE D'UN OUVRIER COMMUNISTE ALEXANDRINRÉSUMÉ Cet article dresse un portrait de Fathallah Mahrûs (1936-2016, une figure du mouvement ouvrier égyptien, célèbre pour ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire des luttes sociales à Alexandrie ou au mouvement communiste du pays, mais aussi chez certains militants des années 2010. Fathallah Mahrûs s'était fait, selon les termes de Michel de Certeau dans Les arts de faire, passeur d'une mémoire révoltée et marginalisée d'Alexandrie. Suite à une alphabétisation débrouillarde, il a beaucoup lu et souvent écrit pour la presse communiste, mais il était avant tout un brillant orateur qui savait comprendre les rationalités multiples de ses interlocuteurs. Cet article relate son parcours archétypal mais aussi et surtout les arts de faire et de dire dont il était maître. Il allait dans les interstices de l'interprétation, saisissant le « moment opportun » pour exercer ses talents de rhétoricien et de conteur. Avec son art de la mémoire, il communiquait sa fascination pour l'inventivité ouvrière et l'histoire des siens, restituant une étendue des possibles, passés et futurs.
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