L’Héroïsme zolien face à la névrose
Zola’s Heroic Resistance to Neurosis

Summary/Abstract: Emile Zola is prone to neurosis because he inherits from the nerves of his mother. This neuropathic predisposition, in contact with the difficult life situations, triggers neurosis in the writer. Zola then leads a battle against this disease. Two main phases characterize this fight: the anti-heroic phase which starts from the twenty years of Zola until his fifty years. During this time, neurosis has the upper hand, psychic disorders are more intense than somatic disorders in Zola. From the fifties, is the opposite, somatic disorders are considerable. Zola then has the upper hand on neurosis. The writer transcribed these different phases among its characters who look like him that are Lazare Chanteau, Claude Lantier and Pascal Rougon. Moreover, Zola provides work as cure for neurosis, work that alternateswith rest for a balance of the patient.

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