The violence of writing in Nathalie Sarraute's les fruits d'or and 'disent les imbéciles'

French Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-176

  David, Nicolette ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/fs/54.2.163     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. For a Kleinian account of aggression, see Klein, 'Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse' (1929), The Writings of Melanie Klein, 4 vols (London, Hogarth and Institute of Psychoanalysis), II, 210-19
2. For an account of the object, see R.D. Hinshelwood, A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (London: Free Association Press, 1991), pp. 362-67
3. For instance, see Stephen Heath, The Nouveau Roman: a Study in the Practice of Writing (London, Elek, 1972)
4. and Ann Jefferson, The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
5. Sarraute's own theoretical writings are actively hostile towards psychoanalytic readings. See Celia Britton, The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory and Politics (Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 1992), pp. 139-41
6. Nathalie Sarraute and the War of the Words: A Study of Five Novels (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), pp. 121-4
7. Nathalie Sarraute: Metaphor, Fairy-Tale and the Feminine of the Text (New York, Peter Lang, 1994), p. 1
8. See Klein, 'The Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States' (1935). See also Deleuze and Guattari: 'En termes kleiniens, on dirait que la position dépressive n'est qu'une couverture pour une position schizoïde plus profonde' (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, L'Anti-Œdipe: capitalisme et schizophrénie (Paris, Minuit, 1972), p. 51)
9. See Klein, 'Infantile Anxiety Situations' (1929), pp. 211-12
10. Nathalie Sarraute, 'Disent les imbéciles' (Paris, Gallimard, 1976), abbreviated DI in the article
11. See Nathalie Sarraute and the War of the Words, p. 136
12. See Klein, 'Some Theoretical Conclusions Regarding the Emotional Life of the Infant' (1952), WMK, IV, 63
13. In 'The Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States', Klein figures the cannibalistic desire to bite or eat the object in terms of the depressive desire to test that the object still exists and has survived phantasied attacks upon it. This is clearly inseparably intertwined with the oral-sadistic pleasure of biting. See Klein, 'The Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States', p. 264
14. For an account of 'containing', see Hinshelwood, A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, pp. 246-52
15. See Anton Ehrenzweig, The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination (London, Weidenfeld, 1993 (1967))
16. and Adrian Stokes, 'Form in Art', in New Directions in Psychoanalysis, ed. by Melanie Klein, Paula Heimann and R. E. Money-Kyrle (London, Tavistock and Maresfield, 1977 (1955)), pp. 406-20
17. See Klein, 'Infantile anxiety-situations'(1929)
18. see also Hinshelwood, 1991, pp.412-16
19. Jean Laplanche et J.-B. Pontalis, Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (Paris, PUF, 1967), p. 409
20. In 'Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein', Jacqueline Rose seeks to give a place to the negativity within Klein, arguing for an aporetic reading of Klein which would operate as an interruption of her normative narratives of development Rose views the whole Kleinian corpus as an attempt to 'get itself under control', to contain the violence of its internal passions. See Rose, Why War? - Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein (Oxford, Blackwell, 1993), pp. 137-90
21. For an account of repetition in literary texts, see Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 1984), pp. 99-100
22. Soleil noir: dépression et mélancolie (Paris, Gallimard, 1987), p. 206
23. Leo Bersani, 'Death and Literary Authority: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein', in The Culture of Redemption (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 7-28