Soulès, Dominique <br/><br/>
Playing with Fire: An Account of Suppression and Melancholia 

 -  2010.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Valère spent his childhood and teenage years in a family with a history of incest and abuse; he himself was raped. For a while he manages to suppress the effects of this deviant family and to avoid sinking into depression. However his mother’s death triggers a state of melancholia that he tries to contain by mutilating himself (seriously) with fire.