Ricoeur on recognition

The Vienna lectures on Recognition have a spectre which I cannot shake: Ricoeur and Gusdorf, Ricoeur immediately after the war and Ricoeur with Eliade.

The extent of the falsity and brutality of the post-war French purges is very sobering.  de Gaulle is influenced not to commute a death sentence by the impression - the recall - that he had seen that man on a magazine cover in a German uniform (likely he was mistaken as to that magazine cover.)  It was imaginable that André Gide be hanged (the doctine of homosexual and esthete weakness) when in fact the Wehrmacht may have triumphed because of the tyranny of military college maxims ("retreat to form a line") and misapprehensions of intent and counter-deception ("they will think that this is a ruse, so instead it will in fact be our intent ...").

Could Ricoeur not recognize himself in those "errors of his youth" ?  He was already married.  He was already a hero.  This was not the case with Eliade in Romania.

His first tasks are paraphrase:  paraphrase Jaspers, Marcel, then Husserl. 

Mikel Dufrenne later had a falling out with the appropriation of Heidegger in France (he was himself a case in point) - but how much of it could he see at work in Ricoeur (Ricoeur sees laborious intersubjectivity constructions as an argument against such efforts - would such be an argument against linguistics?  Evolution?  Economics? The search to identify authors of the Old Testament?)

Husserl and Jaspers abandoned: the strange case of Dufrenne and Ricoeur in the early 1950's; the role of Merleau-Ponty, Jean Wahl and others.

note: Ricoeur on "gift", "giving", "receiving", "gratitude" at the close of the lectures.