The reading body : psychopathology, magical thinking & literature
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https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.489Keywords:
Féminisme, pensée magique, dyslexie, théories erronées, Œdipe, figures de lectrices, Cixous, Sarraute, ProustAbstract
What can children who are unable to learn to read tell us about the very effect of the letter? What connections can be drawn between psychopathology and the writer’s own process? The iconic figure of the Reader curled up with a novel allows us to reflect on the link between the magical thinking found in the child who “prefers” not to know, and the writer who seeks to un-read - to undo the psychic implications of entering the symbolic order of the alphabet and its laws. This initiation is humanizing, precisely because it critiques the enjoyment rooted in incestuous fantasy.
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