„Le mal de mer”, de Marie Darrieussecq: défi des clichés et complexe de la mère

• Main Author: Serenela GHIŢEANU
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Editura Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane 2020-05-01
• Series: Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
• Subjects: identity issues; philosophy of imagination; psychoanalysis; mother complex; deterritorialization
• Online Access: https://www.diversite.eu/pdf/17_1/DICE_17_1_Full_Text_p33-p42-Serenela-GHITEANU.pdf

«Le Malde mer» by Marie Darrieussecq: challenge of the clichés and Mothercomplex.The aim of the article is to interpret the non-typical modes through which Marie Darrieussecq describes a case of alienation caused by the Mother complex, in the novel “Le Mal de mer”.The feeling of the maternity is questioned in a daring way, by a problematical women-trio, on three generations. References as Gaston Bachelard or Julia Kristeva are used in order to explain an archetypal imagery or a theory from psychoanalysis. The writer proceeds to a personalization of the Sea (actually, the maincharacter of the novel), and also to a scientific approach in several descriptions. Instead of a traditional plot, the novel offers a new vision on the Universe, on the Earth and on the oceans. The idea of belonging to a certain space is also questioned and the issue is to present a deterritorialization which becomes more and more frequent nowadays