Maupassant fétichiste ? De l’érotique à l’écriture
Is Maupassant Fetishist? From Eros to Writing
Is Maupassant Fetishist? From Eros to Writing
Author(s): Martina Diaz CornideSubject(s): Literary Texts, Fiction
Published by: Universitatea »Babes Bolyai« Cluj - Facultatea de St. Economice si Gestiunea Afacerilor
Keywords: Alfred Binet ; erotic philosophy; fetishist; Max Nordau; sexual perversion;
Summary/Abstract: Guy de Maupassant has often been diagnosed as a fetishist: the German doctor Max Nordau, who associated madness and artistic genius, met Maupassant and wrote an article accusing him of corrupting the young girls with his sensual texts. At the turn-of-century, fetishism is a trendy sexual perversion, linked to the importance of the objects in the new bourgeois society. Theorised by the psychologist Alfred Binet in 1887, it fast becomes a way of medicalising the sexuality and controlling the intimacy. This paper analyses Nordau’s diagnosis and then discusses how Maupassant’s texts integrate fetishist behavior to construct a new erotic philosophy.
Journal: Lingua. Language and Culture
- Issue Year: XVII/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 73-88
- Page Count: 16
- Language: French