DUGUET - Traite des scrupules et de leurs cau... Lot n° 1035

Deals with scruples and their causes, their species, their dangerous consequences, their general & particular remedies...  Duguet, initially a Jansenist, then tried to distance himself from the most extreme forms of Jansenism. The author of several writings on the psyche and human behaviour, Duguet positions himself here, through a treatise on what in the 18th century is called "scrupules" ink, not only as a continuator of the cures for souls prescribed by the religious, but above all as a precursor of the notion of "neurosis" as a psychic conflict. We find a clear definition of it in the first part of his work after a very short introduction: " I. Scruple is a moral doubt, which is unfounded, or very slightly so: although it sometimes goes as far as persuasion, & fills the consciousness with confusion & perplexity. II. When a person is often troubled by doubts of this kind, or on a particular point, or on several, he is given the name of scrupulous; & this name, which has something humiliating about it, sometimes draws upon piety, of which such a person usually makes profession, some of the contempt which one has for such foibles. » Religious, Duguet does not fail to point out that salvation in the face of this situation is to be found in God. For him, scruples are due to a weakness of mind, a disturbance of the imagination, a difficulty in judging oneself or too much attention to oneself, an impossibility of judging one's own thoughts. He devotes a whole part of his work to solutions, namely the ability to judge reality well, to surround himself well and above all, to have faith and to do the sacraments. The fourth and last part is devoted to the consequences of scruples, in particular the inability to keep one's commitments, melancholy and many kinds of deviation from the path of religion. Paris, Estienne, 1717. In-12, full basane of the past period, back with ornamented nerves, torn headdresses, split bits, blunt corners, epidermal p