Psychoanalyze and autobiography

Introduction

the psychoanalytical Cure consists of a conversation between the " malade" and the Therapeutist. The " malade" expose its Rêve, the events which can be to him associated, and what he thinks of an attentive therapeutist, of a benevolent neutrality, which is charged to interpret these dreams. Can't we consequently regard the autobiographical act as a psychoanalytical, conscious or unconscious cure? The " malade" would be then the autobiographer, the therapeutist would be the reader, who should not thus have any prejudice on the author and be open of spirit, the dreams would be the relation of the events, and especially of their perceptions, and the thoughts which rose from it.

That: Impulse S instinctive of the personality. This authority does not have any rule, any inhibition, any limit in the Agressivité and/or the Sexualité. Any power of the Desire, and will of immediate satisfaction.

Super-ego: Authority driving back, support of all Prohibited S, of all the sociocultural constraints. It is formed by conformation with the parents. It is about a countervailing power to that.

Ego ideal: It is resulting from the first confrontations of that and the super-ego, and is formed by identification with loved people (even adulated) and by the repression of that. Indeed, one passes from the " I can tout" (that) with the " I would like all pouvoir" (ego ideal). Formed of an ideal to which ego wishes to conform, it enables him to exceed and control ashamed excesses of that.

Me: Left the Personality in contact with outside, forming the conscious , it uses the super-ego and the ego ideal in order to drive back the instinctive impulses that.

Imago: Interior image that somebody of the individual-types can be made which can revolve around him, image which does not stick besides inevitably with reality, and which is by là-même different according to the individuals. Two people will thus not have the same opinion of a third. It is about a mechanism of association. He will guide the relations of the individual all his life during. More concretely, it is the image of the mother-in-law acariâtre, or the inefficient son-in-law.

Coil: The most creative part of an individual, even stronger than it me, due to the feeling of self-confidence. The self-service is the state of self-confidence where one can say oneself: " this good man, it is moi". It is the authority which guided at the last century the surrealist ones in their creative research of the unconscious one, when they let their hands be expressed.

False self-service: It resulting from the harmful dissociation of one me controlled by that, and of one me is abnormally dominated by the super-ego, and is turned towards the relational reports/ratios. Normally, me is resulting for it from a compromise between the two antagonistic authorities. There, the dissociative conflict reaches completely it to me.

Oneself: Closely related to the culture, it is worked out throughout the life, by respecting the values of a company, a culture and a way of thinking personal. It is what one could call the personality.

the Confessions, of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the author has the permanent desire to be made forgive. This is resulting from a mechanism of ego and especially of the ego ideal. Indeed, Rousseau wishes to be better shown to be certain that its work and its life will be judged with more indulgence, which is well the ideal of Rousseau. The account shows moreover negative influences of that through the consequences of the unwise actions of Jean-Jacques, as when it gives up Mr. Master with his crisis of epilepsy.

Life of Henry Brûlard , Stendhal: one observes at the end of this work - when it evokes its love for Angela Pietragrua - a certain difficulty of expressing itself on behalf of the author. It is makes some with the notable difference between self of the Adolescent, or the young man, and it oneself of the writer, the Adulte of ripe age. These two Oneself correspond respectively to times of narration and times of stating. One can even say that the desire to seize again its past, which is a Leitmotiv of the autobiography, amounts connecting it to oneself old and it oneself present. The difficulty of the language can moreover result from the Amour insane and unreasoned, and which thus concerns that, of the author. The super-ego wants indeed to repress the impulses in love with that to stick to waitings of the company while being clear and comprehensible (thus in opposition with the love). The conflict and the hesitation of the author generate the difficulty of expression.

the Words, of Jean-Paul Sartre: Sartre often speaks about a Névrose due to its literary vocation " imposée" by its entourage, and especially by his grandfather; One thus sees the influence which the company on ego and it can have oneself. One also sees the importance of the entourage during the construction of the personality which is carried out during childhood. Moreover the " comedy familiale" that Sartre watch is resulting from an arrangement forced of ego (when Jean-Paul is alone) with outside (when Jean-Paul acts futilely to give pleasure), from where an evil to be vis-a-vis this comedy.

Childhood , of Nathalie Sarraute: in its autobiography, it shows a dialog between the author and the narrator, between the " conscience" and the storyteller. The " conscience" push the narrator with being honest, it is thus resulting from the ego ideal which wishes to be honest, with the image of that of Rousseau. The account confirms moreover than childhood is one determining period in the formation of the personality, the told events having formed it to oneself of the author. Nathalie Sarraute recalls the construction of sound oneself through very if childhood; it is noticed that it is about a constant in the autobiography.

the Book of my Mother , Albert Cohen: the permanent regret that Albert Cohen poster is due to the vacuum left by the self-service (which disappeared with death from his/her mother). It is noticed besides that in this case, it is not the self-service which is creator, but its lack. The author relieves himself indeed of his sadness by the writing. One finds this lack of the self-service in all the autobiographies where the authors regret happy memories, but to a lesser extent, since Cohen pushes this fact with its paroxysm.

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