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Ren?e A. Kingcaid uses the theories of Jacques Lacan to explore the relationships between the literary structures found in the short stories of three writers of the French DecadenceMarcel Proust, Jean Lorrain, and Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette)and those psychological structures that underlie neurosis.Kingcaid demonstrates, for example, how Marcel Proust uses fetishism to advance the plot in several of the short stories from his first published work, Pleasures and Regrets (1896). In discussing Jean Lorrains stories from Masked Figures and Phantoms (18911905), Kingcaid shows how repressed childhood trauma becomes a form of metonymy that inflates to assume the entire perceptual field and then leads to moments of horrible realization. By populating her short fiction from Demon of the Absurd (1894) and Stories (1900) with characters who are more interested in inspiring sexual desire than fulfilling it, Rachilde produces love stories that, according to Kingcaid, exemplify her ability to capture the possibilities of language to express desire, even as a structure of lack.Kingcaids rhetorical analysis of some of Freuds case studies and her brief critique of Simone de Beauvoirs Second Sex add to the comprehensiveness of her study.
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Neurosis and Narrative : The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde
author
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Kingcaid, Rene A.
publisher
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Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0809317532
print isbn13
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9780809317530
ebook isbn13
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9780585187068
language
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English
subject
French fiction--20th century--History and criticism, French fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Decadence (Literary movement)--France, Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--Knowledge--Psychology, Lorrain, Jean,--1855-1906--Knowledge--Psychology, Rachilde,
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PQ673.K58 1992eb
ddc
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843/.9109353
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French fiction--20th century--History and criticism, French fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Decadence (Literary movement)--France, Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--Knowledge--Psychology, Lorrain, Jean,--1855-1906--Knowledge--Psychology, Rachilde,
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Neurosis and Narrative
The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde
Rene A. Kingcaid
Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Dan Gunter Designed by Christopher Bucci Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kingcaid, Rene A., 1952 Neurosis and narrative: the decadent short fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde/Rene A. Kingcaid. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. French fiction 20th century History and criticism. 2. French fiction 19th century History and criticism. 3. Decadence (Literary movement) France. 4. Proust, Marcel, 1871 1922 Knowledge Psychology. 5. Lorrain, Jean, 18551906 Knowledge Psychology. 6. Rachilde, 18601953 Knowledge Psychology. 7. Psychoanalysis and literature. 8. Semiotics and literature. 9. Neuroses in literature. 10. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. PQ673.K58 1992 843'.9109353 dc20 91-22156 ISBN 0-8093-1753-2 CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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To Michael
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Contents
Preface
ix
1. Neurosis and Narrative: Principles and Strategies
1
2. Common Ground: Freud and the Decadence
18
3. Plotting the Fetish: Proust's Pleasures and Regrets
35
4. The Return of the Repressed: Lorrain's Masked Figures and Phantoms
75
5. The Epithalamic Horror: Displacement in Rachilde
111
6. Neurosis and Nostalgia: "Decadent" Desire?
145
Notes
155
Bibliography
183
Index
201
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Preface
To make this study as widely accessible as possible, I have provided translations of all of my original French sources, both primary and secondary. Of the primary worksProust's Pleasures and Regrets, Jean Lorrain's Masked Figures and Phantoms, and Rachilde's Stories and Demon of the Absurdonly the Proust, to my knowledge, is available in English translation. That translation, done by Louise Varese and published by Ecco Press in 1949, offers only selected parts of the original Les plaisirs et les jours: the four major short stories of the workthe four I will be looking at herethe preface by Anatole France, two minor short stories, the society portraits known as the "Fragments of Italian Comedy," and the prose poems "Regrets, Reveries, Changing Skies." The translation does not include Proust's own preface to the work, that is, the extended dedication to Willie Heath in which Proust develops the theme of illness as poetic inspiration, the theme that opens the work on a distinct note of Decadence.
I have used Varese's translation for my citations from the major short stories of Pleasures and Regrets: "The Death of Baldassare Silvande," "The Melancholy Summer of Madame de Breyves," "A Young Girl's Confession," and "The End of Jealousy." Page references to these stories in the text refer directly, therefore, to Varese's text. The translations from Proust's own preface, however, are my own, as are all of the translations from Lorrain and Rachilde; my page references to these works are therefore to the French editions cited in the bibliography. In each instance of my own translation of a primary source, I have additionally supplied the French original in the notes. Readers of French will undoubtedly wish to evaluate both my translations and my literary analyses on the basis of the original texts from which I worked. In all translations, I have attempted to retain both the literal meaning and the suggestive nuance of the
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original passages. This exercise in translation has been no less instructive to me than was the initial work of analysis: there is nothing like rendering lurid prose into one's native language to make one fully aware of just how lurid it is!
Similarly, I have done my own translations of all citations from my secondary sources in French. However, in the dual interests of space and textual flow, I have not appended the original French; readers wishing to consult these sources will find them listed in the bibliography. In the few cases in which I have substituted my own translation for a previously published one, I have made this substitution clear in the text.
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