L'enjeu de l'enfant : une structure de l'imaginaire maupassantien
Auteur / Autrice : | Jacqueline Villani |
Direction : | Philippe Hamon |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Littérature française |
Date : | Soutenance en 1994 |
Etablissement(s) : | Paris 3 |
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Résumé
This these deals with various elements brought into play in the elaboration of maupassant's text and draws on the ideological context of the time, literary history and psychoanalytic criticism. The first section is devoted to the mother-child relationship, and brings out to radically opposed discourse levels, one apparent, the other in the subtext, where fantasies are expressed. The second section deals with the distractive drives of which the child is the object (murder, elimination by various methods, directly or by substitution). With this theme, maupassant rediscovers the myths where the child as the figure of the other represents a threat and he reinserts this type of situation into any contemporary reality as well as into subjects of the fantastic. The third section studies the inverse situation whereby the masculine subject (in the psychoanalytic sense of the term) attempts to take the place of the mother so as to exercise her powers. In this configuration figures such as the priest and the artist, take an original dimension. Under the guise of naturalism, maupassant's work in fact is similar to a whole range of myths.