Frantz Fanon ou l’insoutenable irréalité de l’être. Vers une analyse littéraire et lectorielle de la lactification
Frantz Fanon or The Unbearable Unreality of Being. Towards a Narrative and Readerly Analysis of Lactification

Summary/Abstract: It is by observing the attitudes of the colonized peoples in contact with Whites that Frantz Fanon creates in 1952 the psychiatric term of lactification. Around this concept revolves the main notion of whiteness, which acts as a source of identification, appropriation or simple imitation. As a corollary, Fanon supports his demonstration and often draws his psychoanalytic theorization from novelistic examples that reflect both the malaise of individuals and the annihilation of their consciousness. Understood as secondary vectors of lactification, the reading of novels keeps their dangerousness of the past, since they give to the individual who seizes them an aspect, an attribute or a property of the other that will completely or partially transform him or her, or partially. To what extent can Fanonian lactification also be read as a readerly contamination and how the unreality of this neurosis of Africa and the Caribbean can be related in many respects, in its reflexes and in its consequences, to certain symptoms that we find in literary diseases? This study therefore proposes to study the numerous interferences between literature and the elaboration of this concept.

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