Institution and passivity : course notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) / Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; foreword by Claude Lefort ; text established by Dominique Darmaillacq, Claude Lefort, and Stéphanie Ménasé ; translated from the French by Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey.

"Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."

Institution in personal and public history. Introduction -- Institution and life -- Institution of a feeling -- The institution of a work of art -- Institution of a domain of knowledge -- The field of culture -- Historical institution: particularity and universality -- Summary for Thursday's course: institution in personal and public history -- The problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory. Philosophy and the phenomenon of passivity -- For an ontology of the perceived world -- Sleep -- Perceptual consciousness and imagining consciousness -- Symbolism -- Dreams -- The Freudian unconscious -- Delusions: gradiva -- The case of Dora -- The problem of memory -- Appendix: three notes on the Freudian unconscious -- Summary for Monday's course: the problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory.