Marcel Proust : le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire

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• 作者：Maurice Corcos
• 关键词：Marcel Proust ; Time ; Onanism ; Melancholy
• 刊名：L'Évolution Psychiatrique
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：April-June 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：72
• 期：2
• 页码：243-257
• 全文大小：328 K

文摘

As the art historian Daniel Arasse emphasised [1], ‘The anchorage of the artistic drive in the sexual drive was known throughout antiquity, before Christian and ‘Humanist’ theories of art would occult and repress that primary reality’. The too copious Proustian activity of association, beyond masking and revealing crude sexual images poetically, those very same which he qualified as ‘inevitable’, and which may have persecuted him all his life, fully marks out the abyss hollowed out by those who dying abandoned he who was a four year old boy for too long, and then the ‘eternal young man’. This absence was at once the painful and ecstatic lifting of their silence on his strange behaviour. The sadism, covered over with heavy but delectable and syrupy contrition, nestling in the heart of the work or in the many letters of condolence in his correspondance, is undoubtedly the erotisation of a grief otherwise inconsolable. The grief of being separated from Mummy, but not necessarily for the reasons we think. In Search of Lost Time will be the research for lost reasons. The famous reminiscences are less likely to deliver to the author the keys of happiness in ‘pure time’ than the reasons for his unhappiness (all-powerful mother, absent father), are less the traces of a lost intimate paradise than those of a break-down in a small, personal world of nothingness. That childhood innocence is never rediscovered and that grief lasts longer than love are two discoveries made in The Research. The reminiscences will only give in fine a specious sentiment of ephemeral eternity; as soon as they stop, the abyss of the unlived will open … of the real time lost. The time of the child's waiting for the Mother , in the mirror of which will be reflected the time spent waiting for death and to be reunited. To stop time in order to find illusory intimate happiness in the Mother-world fusion will have been Marcel Proust's viaticum. To contain the intolerable suffering of absence by negating time and space, and finding the here and now , even for one moment only, but body and soul, and so the lost object in the memory; this will have been his epic. The Research is the story of an allergic adult who scratched passionately at his childhood wounds and adolescent warts, thus reactivating a past which would not pass since it did not take its place. The only real memories which resist infantile amnesia, are those of disagreement with the object, the only restitutive memory and that of absence, the memory of the absence of the body of the child separated from the object, insofar as it is true to say that there is more difficulty renouncing a source of wounding than a source of happiness.