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Don Quichotte, pour combattre la mélancolie

Don Quichotte, pour combattre la mélancolie

Davoine, Françoise

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN10: 2234061687
ISBN13: 9782234061682
Publisher: Stock
Published: Feb 9 2024
Pages: 458
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.93 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.48
Language: French
Since its publication, the best seller after the Bible, Don Quixote owes its international success to its power to heal melancholia, as its author had imagined it would when he wrote it at over fifty years old. Not unlike hospital patients considered mad, as the author had been in his own life, Cervantes has given Don Quixote, whom he calls his mad son, the responsibility to re-enact the traumas that Cervantes encountered in his own life.
This important text reverberates with Françoise Davoine's cases from her own practice, and with events from her personal history. She describes how the wandering knight's crises are a way of reliving the war and enslavement that Cervantes went through during 5 years in Alger's penal colony, just as psychotic episodes are ways of expressing what can't be said about major traumas, due to the imposed silence of family and society. At the same time, these episodes point to a way out; here the therapist is Sancho Panza, who knows what it is all about having gone through it himself. Thus the book follows closely the different episodes of Don Quixote, exploring gradually the story's various battles. Thanks to his 'virtual' analysis, he is going to heal the traumas of everyone whom he meets on his way.

Associate Professor in Classics and Lecturer at EHESS in Paris, Françoise Davoine is a writer and a psychoanalyst. Notably, she has published La Folie Wittgenstein (EPEL, 1991), Mère Folle (Arcanes, Eres, 1998) and Histoire et Trauma (Stock, 2006).

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