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The topic of this article, «Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, and the Eranos meetings » , recently received considerable attention and a good number of critical analyses. Steven M. Wasserstrom and Hans Thomas Hakl both provided excellent reconstructions, from different perspectives, of the Eranos circle, especially in the period this article deals with, the 1950s. Moshe Idel, Florin Turcanu, Dan Dana, and Natale Spineto contributed a great deal to cast a light on Eliade's literary, personal, and academic outcome during the 1940s and 1950s. While the present text does not claim to have uncovered new historical data in the relationship between Eliade and Jung at Eranos, already magisterially probed by Turcanu, it pursues three new avenues of interpretation. It first mines Eliade's 1950s diaries to analyze the role of personal dream interpretation as secondary data for Mircea Eliade's history of religion. It turns next to Eliade's correspondence with Jung to re-examine the historian of religions' involvement with analytical psychology. It finally advances the proposal for a new trajectory of Eliade's development of the set of perennial conceptual placeholders, such as «sacred/ profane » , «labyrinth/ center » , «axis mundi » , «initiation » , «trans-conscious » , and «cosmic Christianity » . We dubbed them perennial conceptual placeholders in virtue of the epistemic and ontological work, of universalizing bent, Eliade had asked them to carry out in his scholarship. This article suggests that Eliade forged some of them in his cultural journalism, written in Romanian, and fully developed them during the 1950s Eranos meetings, as a form of personalized history of religion and cure for the souls.

This article reports on an investigation into the channels through which intellectuals have gained public recognition since the 1970s (quality press, intellectual journals, think tanks, conference venues, cultural radio and TV programs, publishing houses, etc.). Through the prism of field theory, we explored a space – that of the visibility of ideas – situated at the crossroads of several institutionally established fields (academic, intellectual, media, political, and economic). While the number of studies devoted to this type of interstitial space has multiplied since the 2000s, the focus has mainly been on their heteronomy through comparisons with autonomous fields. This approach tends to lose sight of the fact that they could neither emerge nor endure in the absence of stability. Based on the notion of the space of visibility of ideas, the present paper attempts to show that it is possible to apprehend the stability of these labile spaces by adopting an ethnographic approach, conducive to the articulation of micro/meso/macro levels and the mixing of methods. In so doing, we put forward the idea that interstitial spaces can ultimately be analyzed in terms of perimeters and capital, in other words, as fields.

Dans le cadre d'un modèle de croissance Schumpétérien, nous étudions comment le droit de la propriété intellectuelle et le financement public des activités de recherche et de développement peuvent permettre de donner des incitations adaptées simultanément à la recherche fondamentale et à la recherche appliquée. Nous développons un modèle distinguant ces deux types d'activités de recherche en fusionnant les modèles séminaux de Romer [1990] et de Aghion et Howitt [1992] ; ainsi, l'accumulation de connaissance découle conjointement d'une série d'inventions (accumulation horizontale de connaissance résultant de l'activité de recherche fondamentale) et d'une succession d'innovations qui s'appuient sur chacune de ces inventions (accumulation verticale de connaissance résultant de l'activité de recherche appliquée). Dès lors, nous étudions une économie décentralisée dans laquelle les investissements dans la recherche fondamentale ne sont pas entravés par le mécanisme de destruction créatrice grâce à un droit de la propriété intellectuelle qui induit une répartition des profits entre tout inventeur et les innovateurs qui lui succèdent. Nous montrons que la mise en place d'incitations optimales à la recherche fondamentale requiert non seulement un droit de la propriété intellectuelle assurant un transfert suffisant de profits des innovateurs vers les inventeurs, mais également un soutien financier public de la recherche, sous forme de subventions destinées à la recherche fondamentale mais aussi à la recherche appliquée.