SILENCE DU DEDANS ET DU DEHORS DANS « HÔPITAL SILENCE » DE NICOLE MALINCONI
SILENCE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE IN "HOSPITAL SILENCE" BY NICOLE MALINCONI

Summary/Abstract: Humans use words to communicate (themselves), to establish identity-otherness links of contiguity. The words, delivered on white sheets, squeeze the soul out of the oppression of everyday life. The word, a favorite instrument of writing, translates the multi-layered perspective that both inhabits and possesses (this is a fundamental difference between “inhabiting” and “owning”) both human beings. But would the dialogue only consist of words? We have put forward the thesmerare hypothesis of a negative answer There is also the metaphorical dialogue of reticence, of silence. Something unspoken out of reluctance. In our contribution we will focus our attention on the novel Hôpital silence (Hospital Silence) by Nicole Malinconi. We will consider the spatial and temporal premises of language that fails in its attempt to express wholeness. This will be an unexpected and momentary step forward that will force the individual to reconfigure his or her identity path in relation to this lack. We will show how the characters, deprived of a self-sufficient language, make their reluctance. This analysis will trace the modalities by which the actants suspend their words while the unspoken put in a relentless possession of identity modeling. We will then measure the psychoanalytic consequences of this (self) imposed reluctance.

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