title: [The paradigm of childhood].
abstract: This article suggests that overall reflexion should be undertaken on the preponderant and challenging place taken by childhood in to-day's psychology both for specialists and laymen. In our culture, childhood would be defined as a logical, moral and aesthetic paradigm. Through it's speech, psychology is creating a modern myth of childhood, technical and scientific and therefore paradoxical.
authors.affiliation: Université de Bordeaux 2.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laflaquière
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child
vernacular_title: L'enfance paradigmatique.