May 68 and Psychotherapy

摘要

It would be rash to claim that the May 68 uprising in France was about any particular issue. Such historical moments are inevitably the product of numerous complex themes and forces interwoven over substantial periods of time. For example, it is not difficult to trace certain elements of May 68 back to 1789, or to Rousseau. Equally there were essential features that were post WWII phenomena. It is also important to understand‘les événments’in Paris in the wider contemporary context of political protest around the world in the 1960s. The sig_nificance of ‘May 68’lies less in the specific events in Paris and more in the complex web of ideas, beliefs, values and political tendencies that it symbolized. A matrix that became loosely termed the counter-culture