Original scientific paper

Telling From Inside: Introjection In Henry Bauchau's Works

Stéphanie Crêteur ; ‎Lectrice de langue et littérature françaises WBI à la Beijing Foreign Studies University

Abstract

In Henry Bauchau’s (1913–2012) work a desire to express oneself and the world is tangible all along. However, the author at the beginning of his autofictionnal work is confronted to aphasia. The writer willing to say too much becomes paradoxically mute. To attain a right word, he is going to use the process of introjection which allows "into himself a part as important as possible of the world by transforming it into unconscious imaginations”. This phenomenon will let the narrator re-claim his surrounding world while mythologizing it.This is thus a completely different connexion to reality that Bauchau offers the reader where the world blends with the interiority of the narrator-author to become a completely original and personal discourse. Hence, the introjection offers a way to combine the self an the world. The speech becomes possible again.

Keywords

introjection; interiorisation; mythification; autofiction; psychoanalysis

Hrčak ID:

170348

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/170348

Publication date:

7.11.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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