Au seuil de la mer, au stade du miroir : Tristan et Yseut dans les poèmes en vers
At the threshold of the sea, at the mirror stage: Tristan and Yseut in the verse poems

Author(s): Brînduşa Grigoriu
Subject(s): French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Tristan; la mer(e); mirror stage; fiction line; Ego Ideal; liminality;
Summary/Abstract: Tristan and Yseut begin their career as holy terrors in the XIIth century, thanks to the French poets Béroul and Thomas. The present article suggests a refreshing approach to the ancient matiere de Tristan, via the “mirror stage” and the “fiction line” (Lacan, 1966: 92) afforded by the specular investment of the sea. L’amer / la mer becomes a liminal space favoring the generation of the couple Ego – Ego-Ideal, a horizon of bitter-sweet love (and amour-propre) to grasp through the matrix of the Philter.

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