« La faune est l’enfer du psychisme ». Bachelard lecteur de Lautréamont
"Fauna is the Hell of the Psyche". Bachelard' reading of Lautréamont

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror as an infernal dystopia. In Bachelard’s lecture, we will stress the metamorphic schemes of aggression and violence pictured by the rapid and perpetual transformations of animal forms. In fact, Lautréamont’s poetry is aggressive and nervous. Bachelard speaks of a “projective poetry” as a psychic explosion of an over-excited mind. This poetry is therefore dynamic and primitive, because it is the expression of an original “will to live” that is a “will to attack”. It follows that the lecture of The Songs of Maldoror teaches us how to descend to our psychic hell and to live its tensions thanks to the animal metaphors it displays.

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