The psychosocial and the transindividual in Gilbert Simondon

Abstract

This article explores the problematic field of French human sciences in the 1950s. By focusing on the problem of the link between the psychic and the collective, it seeks to establishsome of the historical and epistemological premises on which Gilbert Simondon’s psychosocialtheory is based. To this end, it outlines a series of theoretical references on the aforementionedproblem, analyzes the solutions put forward by the genetic epistemologies of Jean Piaget (1951) and Lucien Goldmann (1952), explores the ontogenetic project of Simondon and introduces the notion of transindividuality.