Sartre and Pontalis: A Transference “to the Letter”?
Fœillet-Perruche, Mariane
Sartre and Pontalis: A Transference “to the Letter”? - 2005.
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As a child, J.-B. Pontalis suffered from an ambivalence towards language which became a kind of melancholia, caused by his father’s early death. Thanks to his transference onto Sartre, he recovered from his neurosis, which had left him mourning for words. This literary transference onto Nausea (La Nausée), and Words (Les Mots) paradoxically allows him to question the splitting between body and letter. This transference “onto the letter”, might be considered the beginning of his inclination for psychoanalysis.
Sartre and Pontalis: A Transference “to the Letter”? - 2005.
82
As a child, J.-B. Pontalis suffered from an ambivalence towards language which became a kind of melancholia, caused by his father’s early death. Thanks to his transference onto Sartre, he recovered from his neurosis, which had left him mourning for words. This literary transference onto Nausea (La Nausée), and Words (Les Mots) paradoxically allows him to question the splitting between body and letter. This transference “onto the letter”, might be considered the beginning of his inclination for psychoanalysis.
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