Cette thèse conjugue l’étude du mythe de la métamorphose et du sentir amoureux, afin de mettre en relief les transformations produites sous l’incidence faste ou néfaste de l’éros. Apporter de nouveaux éclairages mythocritiques et proposer une approche novatrice du mythe érotomorphique à travers une analyse spectrale et fractale de ses composantes constituent nos objectifs essentiels. Les œuvres analysées appartiennent aux littératures française, anglaise, belge, argentine, roumaine et flamande, et s’inscrivent, à l’exception des contes portant sur le fiancé-animal, dans les XXe et XXIe siècles. La diversité du corpus permet d’adjoindre au fait comparatiste une ouverture du champ de la recherche à travers des traductions inédites et des œuvres qui entremêlent modernité et remotivation de la tradition mythique. Les chapitres de la thèse, Préliminaires à l’étude du mythe, Sublimations érotomorphiques, Un amour guérisseur, Entre Éros et Thanatos, Aliénations et révolutions érotomorphiques, présentent le mythe de l’érotomorphose contrôlée, involontaire ou transférentielle, comme une enveloppe verbale littéraire qui crypte la réalité amoureuse intérieure et extérieure de l’être, dans le but de révéler son véritable moi-peau. La métamorphose apparaît ainsi comme une autoreprésentation matérielle de l’ego sensorium. Accomplir cette érotogenèse revient à annuler la discontinuité corporelle qu’entraîne la transformation, en conférant au métamorphe un corps à la mesure de son idéal amoureux, à la fois moïque et physique. La transition permet de la sorte le passage de la dissociation à une parfaite consonance fractale entre l’infrastructure de l’âme et la suprastructure corporelle. / This thesis associates the study of the myth of metamorphosis and the analysis of the love faculty in order to emphasize transformations produced under the favourable or harmful incidence of eros. To cast a new light on mythocritical theories and to propose an innovative approach to the erotomorphic myth through a spectrum and a fractal analysis of its components constitute our essential objectives. The texts studied in this frame belong to French, English, Belgian, Argentinian, Romanian and Flemish literatures of the XXth and the XXIst centuries, with the exception of the fairy-tales about the animal bride. The diversity of this corpus permits to join comparative reasoning with an opening-up of the research field through original translations and literary works that intermingle modernity and remotivation of the mythic tradition. The chapters of the thesis, Preliminaries to the Study of Myth, Erotomorphic Sublimations, A Healing Love, Between Eros and Thanatos, Alienations and Erotomorphic Revolutions, present the myth of the controlled, involuntary or transferential erotomorphosis as a literary verbal envelope which encrypts the internal and external amorous reality of the human being, with the aim of revealing his true skin-ego. Metamorphosis thus appears like a material auto-representation of the ego sensorium. Accomplishing this erotogenesis means cancelling the corporal discontinuity involved in all transformations, by conferring to the metamorphe a body that matches his psychic and physical amorous ideal. The transition therefore allows passage from dissociation to a perfect fractal consonance between the corporal superstructure and the infrastructure of the heart.

Despite its chequered interpretational history, the book of Shîr ha-Shîrîm (Song of Songs) in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament has still not come to its fullest religious potential. The reason is that it has mainly served relatively closed religious traditions defined by the exclusion of those that have reacted against it. As the text of Song of Songs itself does not explicitly testify to any religiosity, these communities have understood it religiously by projecting their own predetermined needs and beliefs onto it. The text does, however, suggest several layers in the history of its formation, representing different levels of consciousness and stages of religiosity. In the postmodern globalising context where the importance of interfaith understanding is increasingly realised and the nature of human religiosity is constantly redefined in terms of ever-broadening horizons, the religiosity of the book has been stretched as wide as possible by also taking into consideration the ancient contextual influences which could have left their traces on the unconscious mind of its author(s) and redactor(s). To this end, the transpersonal psychological theory of Kenneth Wilber as interpreted by Michael Washburn has been used. Wilber’s inclusive view of religiosity respects all its forms as developmentally appropriate expressions of experiences of the divine which should all be taken seriously. The explicit “absence” of the divine in Song of Songs has been so conspicuous that it has ironically made it more present and led to a greater search for the Ineffable whose whispering and footprints are discernible in relation to the level of consciousness. Exploring the religiosity of Song of Songs in this way then becomes an exercise in being more sensitive to the presence of the divine in all other areas of life as well. Traditional polarities such as sexuality and religiosity are dissolved at the same time and proven to coincide as two aspects of the same experience. Not only does erotic love open one’s eyes to the divine in nature as the body of God, but one also encounters the divine in the body. / Old Testament & Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

Czech Literary Anarchism in the Context of Socialism and the Women's Movement (1890-1914) Abstract The thesis focuses on Czech pre-WWI anarchism. It analyses it as a modernist movement comprising various activities spanning political propaganda, proposals of social organisation and thinking about moral values as well views on the arts and literary production. The aim is to present literary texts written by anarchists against a backdrop of other types of expression. At the same time, the thesis assesses anarchism in the historical context of other political, social, artistic and philosophical movements. We study the interweaving of ideological and aesthetic schemes of Czech anarchism, especially with socialism and feminism, but also concerning decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy and writings of the German Friedrichshagen poets' and anarchists' circle. The thesis focuses on how anarchism understands human beings and their relationship to the world and society. Given the anarchists' focus on the free individual, we present strategies of emancipation from traditional conventions and institutions such as marriage, family and the state. We also concentrate on reforms concerning morals and similarities with the feminist turn to one's own bodily and psychical experiences as starting points for setting...

Despite its chequered interpretational history, the book of Shîr ha-Shîrîm (Song of Songs) in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament has still not come to its fullest religious potential. The reason is that it has mainly served relatively closed religious traditions defined by the exclusion of those that have reacted against it. As the text of Song of Songs itself does not explicitly testify to any religiosity, these communities have understood it religiously by projecting their own predetermined needs and beliefs onto it. The text does, however, suggest several layers in the history of its formation, representing different levels of consciousness and stages of religiosity. In the postmodern globalising context where the importance of interfaith understanding is increasingly realised and the nature of human religiosity is constantly redefined in terms of ever-broadening horizons, the religiosity of the book has been stretched as wide as possible by also taking into consideration the ancient contextual influences which could have left their traces on the unconscious mind of its author(s) and redactor(s). To this end, the transpersonal psychological theory of Kenneth Wilber as interpreted by Michael Washburn has been used. Wilber’s inclusive view of religiosity respects all its forms as developmentally appropriate expressions of experiences of the divine which should all be taken seriously. The explicit “absence” of the divine in Song of Songs has been so conspicuous that it has ironically made it more present and led to a greater search for the Ineffable whose whispering and footprints are discernible in relation to the level of consciousness. Exploring the religiosity of Song of Songs in this way then becomes an exercise in being more sensitive to the presence of the divine in all other areas of life as well. Traditional polarities such as sexuality and religiosity are dissolved at the same time and proven to coincide as two aspects of the same experience. Not only does erotic love open one’s eyes to the divine in nature as the body of God, but one also encounters the divine in the body. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)