TY  - CHAP
A1  - Camilletti, Fabio
T1  - Human desire, deadly love : the "Vita Nova" in Gide, Delay, Lacan
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - Between 1816 and 1821, the philologist François Raynouard (1761–1836) published a "Choix des poésies originales des troubadours". His connections with Madame de Staël's cultural circle at Coppet determined the construction of the myth of courtly love as a forerunner of Romantic love. [...] Acording to this cultural tradition, Dante is an intermediate (although pre-eminent) step in the history of Western desire, a process begun in medieval Provence and revitalized by European Romanticism. When Lacan approaches Dante, it is therefore one Dante - this Dante - that he is approaching. The present essay, in which Fabio Camilletti analyses three tightly interwoven texts, explores some of the reverberations of this encounter. In 1958, Lacan published in "Critique" an article entitled 'La jeunesse d'André Gide, ou la lettre et le désir'. This text, later included in Lacan's "Écrits", was meant to be a review of a biography of the young Gide published in 1956 by Jean Delay, entitled "La jeunesse d'André Gide". In comparing Gide's life with his works of youth, Delay notably focused on Gide's novel of 1891, "Les Cahiers d'André Walter", the third text on which Camilletti focuses his inquiry. These three texts evoke in various ways the relationship between Dante and Beatrice, using it as a cultural allusion through which specific problems of sexuality (or, better, of the absence of sexuality) are conveyed. This essay aims therefore to be a study in the rhapsodic and subterranean presence of Dante and the "Vita Nova" between the end of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, as well as in the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis through the quartet Dante-Gide-Delay-Lacan.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - La vita nuova
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - French literature
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Lacan, Jacques
KW  - Gide, André
KW  - Delay, Jean
KW  - Psychoanalyse
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51554
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515544
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/camilletti_human-desire-deadly-love.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 177
EP  - 200
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -