Talk:Freud: The Secret Passion

"Jonesian"?[edit]

The quote in the section on the lack of reception in Sartre's circle references an obviously standing expression of Jonesian. As this appears to be a reference to a (proverbialized?) person, it'd be good for non-native speakers if the expression would be linked to its origin via pipe-linking. So far, I've found three potential candidates that could work as kind of an "archetypical personality or pioneer in their field" that could more or less work in the quote's context:

William Jones (philologist) (1746-1794): Linguist who originated the eminent field of Indo-European studies, and with it an extensive, still on-going debate spreading from linguistics into as vastly diverse fields as cultural anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, and modern genetics (all relating to processes of migration and otherwise that took place in protohistory) with its topics of Urheimat (Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses) and Proto-Indo-Europeans, and that to a large extent overlaps with, perhaps even encompasses concepts such as (the foundations of) Western civilization and Caucasian race.
Robert Clark Jones (1916-2004): Physician who worked in the field of optics. Was influential enough to have the mathematical Jones calculus named after him, and a rational, calculating mind such as a mathematician's at least superficially seems to fit the kind of use that's made of Jonesian within the context of the quote in question.
Edward E. Jones (1927-1993): Well, he was a psychologist, but his birthdate would suggest that he wouldn't be widely known within the context of 1950s France. Not that that'd matter much with an essayistic proverbial use of an expression such as Jonesian, of course. --87.151.18.201 (talk) 06:50, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

- Reference is to Ernest Jones, Freud's colleague and official biographer.

Sometimes a pipe-link is just a pipe-link. Straw Cat (talk) 19:45, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]