L’intime conviction est un principe introduit par le législateur sous la Révolution. Apparue près d’un siècle plus tard, la révolution psychanalytique continue d’éclairer, tel le prisme diffracteur, l’intime et la conviction.

Intime conviction is the standard of proof applied in French criminal law. The principle was introduced by the government during the French Revolution and refers to the inner, personal conviction of the judge after considering all the evidence. The psychoanalytic revolution, which started nearly a century later, has continued to shed its light on the concept, like a diffractive lens splitting the notion of “inner” from that of “conviction”.