Traditional conceptions of man's nature and place in the world were, as a consequence, under threat.
Her conception of "men wearing cuffed pants and white socks" is at variance with my recollection of a more colorful outfit, constituted totally of synthetic materials and comprising shiny white shoes, a wide, shiny white belt, polyester suit, generally in a garish color, with considerable latitude in choice of shirt -- Hawaiian for the trendy, closed collar and tie for business.
This imagery is closely related to the conception of man that is held in each religion.
As the editor of Libération, Laurent Joffrin, put it in an article in February: "Only an abstract conception of Man can confer unity upon France".
In their creation story, which is the basis of their religious beliefs, they acknowledge a supreme being "beyond the conception of man".
Instead, Freud's analysis of the psyche posited an independent, trans-historical mechanism, based on a highly personal biologic conception of man.
Are we not, perhaps unwittingly, setting up a Manichaean conception of man and the world, in which the work of the flesh, vitiated in itself, is tolerated only in view of children?
contrasted the callousness of our male society with my basic conception of man as mortal and woman as immortal; in the modern world it is only the murderer who wishes to reverse this state of affairs.
