Adèle Hugo est née entre deux révolutions, l’une littéraire, l’autre politique. La dernière-née Hugo a été annoncée par son père comme « un ouvrage promettant de vivre ». Nous nous sommes laissés enseigner par la position subjective de la jeune femme et nous avons pu repérer comment à partir de cette inscription, assignation en tant qu’objet, Adèle s’estconstruite. Sa vie fut marquée de ruptures, la première se fit à sa naissance, la séparation de ses parents ; puis ce fut le mariage et le décès de sa soeur ; et enfin l’exil, celui imposé par son père, puis les siens. Adèle qui n’était pas la préférée d’aucun de ses parents a tout mis en oeuvre pour devenir, elle aussi « la fille exceptionnelle » de cet homme hors ducommun. En vain. C’est en écrivant, dans une « langue nouvelle » qu’elle confie ses états d’âme. Son écrit, travail de la lettre lui permet de maintenir une existence presque normale, jusqu’au jour où elle a rencontré le lieutenant Pinson et que sa soeur par la pratique spirite lui dicta sa conduite : « ma soeur, aime-le ! » / Adèle Hugo was born between two revolutions : the literary one and the political one known as The French Revolution. The last-born, she has been introduced by her father as « a work promising to live ». We learnt thanks to Adèle how a fore-written inscription, this ascription as an object, determined the young woman’s subjective position; therefore,we have been able to see her psychic construction. Her life had been marked by many breaks. The first one, at birth, her parents get assunder ; the second was the mariage and the death of her sister, then the imposed exile by her father, and at last her own exiles. Adèle who was not the favorite daugther, made all her best to become « the exceptional daugther » of this extraordinary man. To no avail. Writing in « a new langage », she consignes her spirit. Her writing, work of the letter, allowed her to have a nearly normal life, till the day she met Leutenant Pinson ; her sister, through spiritism told her « mysister, love him ! »

This thesis would like to inform the reader of a new crime in the Czech republic which is dangerous pursuit (stalking) and it aims at analysis of current legislation. It attemps to define dangerous pursuit, the emergence of this phenomenon from a historical point of view as well as its current interpretation. It also covers the penalties that can be imposed on the criminals. Moreover, it also looks at victims of dangerous pursuit and effective ways of helping the victims as well as the criminals.

This exegesis interrogates the mental illness Pure Erotomania, the rare delusional disorder which presents with the sufferer having the delusional (and therefore unshakeable) belief that the person they objectify is in love with them. My play Yellow Roses in Fortitude Valley is about one woman's emotional journey as she is relentlessly stalked by a Pure Erotomanic male. It is a fascinating mental illness, which includes all the 'box office type' features, which make it an exciting and frightening subject to write a dramatic work about. It is confusing, illusory, surreal and frightening, but best of all for the writer and audience it is a real human condition. Yellow Roses in Fortitude Valley is written in a style that truthfully represents and portrays the journey and struggle for both the victim and the sufferer. The research undertaken for both the play and exegesis was a hybrid of many overlapping disciplines involved in the current discourse. As a recently diagnosed and recognized disorder, it is still new territory for professionals in the field and for audience members. I believe this makes it an opportune time for an academically researched creative project to enter into current discourse. Previous creative works on this topic, some of which I have interrogated, have approached the issue of stalking as a predator/victim scenario, an unrequited love or a domestic violence situation. I wished to portray the stalking as a mental illness in the form of the psychiatric disorder Erotomania, my approach undertaking to explain victim impact and the prolonged and chronic course of Erotomanic stalking. I also wished to illustrate the underlying themes which I uncovered during my research, being; female victims of sex crimes; dominant patriarchal ideology; and the current interventions in stalking by the legal and mental health systems.