Naître sujet parlant dans la chair Réflexions anthropologiques à partir de Cioran, Job et la psychanalyse

Abstract

Based upon the statement of a child expressing his belief that his parents were not born, the author questions the phenomenon of birth from a cross-reading of Cioran and the book of Job, in dialogue with the psychoanalytical thought represented by Lacan, Dolto and Winnicott. Freely playing with intertextuality for exploratory purposes, he shows that the hatred the subject feels for his own birth translates his fear of life as a loss of totality, which goes hand in hand with a refusal to enter language as a world of difference. Conversely, consent to loss, backed by trust in the power to speak, opens access to the life of desire – if one subject can bear witness for another in his or her own flesh.