MÉMOIRE, OUBLI ET IDENTIFICATION (PROJECTIVE) DANS SI J’ÉTAIS VOUS… DE JULIEN GREEN
MEMORY, FORGETTING, AND (PROJECTIVE) IDENTIFICATION IN IF I WERE YOU... BY JULIEN GREEN

Summary/Abstract: Julien Green’s novel Si j’étais vous... presents a series of avatars through which the central character, Fabien, passes in search of what he believes to be an identity superior to his own. Prey to a thought that runs through all of us at times - that the lives of others would be preferable to our own - he borrows the existence of other human beings to live, for a short time, in their bodies and souls. We are going to analyze this metamorphosis using concepts from psychoanalytic theory, the most important of which is projection. Projective identification - another controversial concept in psychoanalytical theory - will take us back to the work of Melanie Klein and her vision of the stages of human psychic development. Human identity remains an enigma that we never stop questioning, in the hope of gaining a better understanding of life in order to live it better.

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