FOCUS No. 252 – A Look Back at the Driving Forces Behind the High School Student Movement

In his new book *Homo occidentalis*, co-authored with psychologist and psychoanalyst Ruben Rabinovitch, Jérôme Fourquet describes a genuine anthropological and psychological shift in the West: the transformation of the family and attitudes toward the body, religion, and consumption; the weakening of authority; and, more broadly, the rise of an increasingly autonomous individual. The recent high school student protests can be seen, to a certain extent, as an illustration of this transformation and this transition from the old to the new psychological order.