UNE LECTURE PSYCHANALYTIQUE DE LA PLEURANTE DES RUES DE PRAGUE: LA VOIE QUI MENE SYLVIE GERMAIN DE LA SOUFFRANCE A LA CATHARSIS
PSYCHOANALYTICAL READING IN THE WEEPING WOMEN ON THE STREETS OF PRAGUE: THE WAY THAT LEADS SYLVIE GERMAIN FROM THE SUFFERING TO THE CATHARSIS

Summary/Abstract: Sylvie Germain, one of the writers of the generation of the post-World War II years, is a contemporary writer who highlights in her novels the events that profoundly influenced nations through the notion of the evil. Her novels follow one another on the same subject and reflect around a collective memory. The author who holds a doctorate in philosophy, probes historical event deeply from their religious, philosophic and literary angles. Her literary universe is made of the concept of evil that has determined the humanity to cry and suffer for centuries. War, crime, murder, rape, incest - each represents the evil. The sufferings and the destructions lived after the evil had only some fatal consequence at that time, but also their effects were genetically transferred to future generations. Freud, who is considered as the pioneer of psychoanalysis, was the first scientist who elaborated the theory of the unconscious. He was then able to explain the causes many mental disorders as manifestations of repressed feelings. Psychosis, considered as a mental disorder, is the unearthing of hallucinatory images stemming from repressed feelings and thoughts. The disorder reveals a disconnect between the internal world and the real life of the individual. The short story of Sylvie Germain, entitled The weeping women on the streets of Prague, presents all the sufferings of the humanity by a narrator who describes the conflict between the unconscious and the conscious through hallucination. We should not forget that the literary texts are documents witnessing the real-life experiences. The present study attempts to show that one of the ways for catharsis is to "write".

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