Yvain ou l’intégration identitaire
Yvain or the Identity Integration

Summary/Abstract: The history of humanity follows the evolution of the individual integration specific to the Middle Ages, to the doubling through reference to someone else, specific to modern times until the “unfinished destabilization of the Self” (cf. G. Lipovetsky) and the loss of identity landmarks. Chrétien de Troyes’ hero, situated at the crossroads of ancient and modern myths, finds his identity at the end of his adventures, which make him discover his innermost personality. He ends up integrating into a community that confirms him. This tendency of the medieval character to engage in identity reconfiguration through union and internal harmonization (from self to self) not only shows a mystical origin specific to Christian religion transfused into the spirituality of the Middle Ages, but it integrates in a system of thinking and research which crosses the centuries.

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