Prise de conscience, structure et concept de période

[eng] SUMMARY From our point of view tlie sliort period can be defined on the one hand by the poor development of consciousness It is the period of routine res ponses typical of cumulative processes rise or downfall In that case the behaviour of the economical subjects results only from their propensities and purely phenomenological knowledge of economy This cumulative growth created by instinctive reactions carries ine vitably structural tensions along with it second criterion of the short period for all parts of the economy are not equally malleable At this stage appear bottlenecks which engender reversal of the situation accompanied by all the instinctive reactions implicated among economic subjects by such reversals But these subjecte dominate progressively their elementary reflexes and begin to reflect on the origin of the phenomenon Their behaviour shows they are nov conscious of the changes occured in the proportions and relations of the economic frame overcapitalisation for instance instead of perceiving only the effects of such changes evolution of prices Their phenomenological knowledge is replaced by structural knowledge Their behaviour becomes adapted to the changes provoked in the structure of production and consists of an action on other structures monetary political social mental... achieving something different than simple return to the ancient structure of production Thus full consciousness of economical subjects characteristic to our mind of the long period is necessarily accompanied by changes indispensable for structural adaptations