Chronicle of a deferred appearance
The value of "us" is not as strong as it used to be, beyond the spheres of the couple, family, sport team and business partnership. This text tries to formulate, at the "infinitely medium" scale in the individual's life of today, the delicate transition (inextricably mixed in its contingencies to everyday life) of the "aggregative symbolism" to the "sociative symbolism", of which Nicolas Abraham had shown a phenomenological sketch in 1961. In this case the lost opportunity would be double: 1) to imagine the introspection of the generation of Quebecers born between 1960 and 1972, via the hypothesis of six Montrealers, brought together in the light by Cornelius Castoriadis' "social imaginary significations", and the sociology of Danilo Martuccelli; 2) imagining what it would be like, once developed retrospectively, the quasi imperceptible transformations of this generation between 2000 and 2010, through some transversal modifications operating in the life of six, in a way more consequent than before.