Influence, dangerous relationships

There is always something a little grotesque when more or less scholarly concepts are on everyone’s lips, accommodated in all sauces. THE « gros concepts » ready-to-think, as Deleuze said, are “as big as hollow teeth” ; they end up preventing fine thinking. It would be wrong, however, to make too much fun of the “grey zone”, or the invasive “narcissistic perversions” that we readily attribute to “toxic people”. It happens that this kind of magic formula remains very useful to designate, decipher, denounce, and if possible defuse complicated, painful and deleterious human realities.

Recently, it is “the influence” which has entered the pantheon of these fashionable concepts, to name mechanisms of domination, manipulation and rape

Source : Nouvelobs

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