[pt] Esta tese se propõe examinar os fundamentos sociais e históricos do pensamento de Donatien-Alphonse-François, mais conhecido como Marquês de Sade (1740-1814). Por meio de uma descrição dos regimes discursivos relacionados com uma visão do corpo na França, a constatação da descontinuidade histórica entre as formas enunciativas eróticas, libertinas e pornográficas tornou-se evidente e nos permitiu uma compreensão melhor dos primeiros vínculos sociais e filosóficos dos textos de Sade com o mundo do Antigo Regime. De igual maneira, verificamos mudanças nas formas de compreensão de seus textos; isso em virtude da consolidação de uma imagem de perversidade ligada ao Marquês de Sade e que, acreditamos, guiou a leitura histórica de sua herança crítica desde o século XVIII. Observamos também as preferências de leitura de Sade, o diálogo que ele realizou com seus contemporâneos e suas escolhas de formas de escrever. Acreditamos que tudo isso contribuiu para que ele interpretasse a França e a história por meio de ideias conservadoras, que se traduziram em um pensamento atravessado por algumas apostas céticas de que a vida e a faculdade de julgamento são engendradas em cada situação. Este conservadorismo sugere também possíveis relações de Sade com as concepções populares de corpo e natureza, para as quais há simetria entre o bem e o mal, sendo a vida e a história resultado desse esforço de equilíbrio. / [en] This thesis proposes an examination of social and historic groundings in the thought of Donatien-Alphonse-François, more known as Marquis de Sade (1740-1814). Trough a description of discursive regimens related to a specific vision of the body in France, a historic discontinuity between erotic, libertine, pornographic enunciation forms became evident, and permitted a better comprehension of the philosophic and social liaisons of Sade’s texts to the world of the Ancien Regime. Changes in the ways by which his texts have been comprehended were as well verified, in this case, pointing to the consolidation of certain image of perversity linked to Sade, guiding the historic interpretations of his critic legacy since the 18th century. The reading preferences of the author and the dialogue he evolved with his contemporaries where also observed. These resources leaded to the conclusion that Sade interpreted France and history in general with conservative ideas, translated in a mode of thought permeated by some sceptic stakes. This conservatism also suggests relations of Sade with popular conceptions of body and nature, to which good and evil are symmetrical, so that life is taken as a result of the balance effort generated in this situation. / [fr] Cette thèse a pour but examiner les fondements sociaux et historiques de la pensée de Donatien-Alphonse-François, plus connu comme Marquis de Sade (1740-1814). Par le moyen d’une description des régimes discursives liés à une vision du corps en France, la constatation d’une manque de continuité historique entre les formes énonciatives érotiques, libertines et pornographiques est devenue évidente et elle nous a permis de mieux comprendre les premiers liens sociaux et philosophiques des texts de De Sade avec le monde de l’Ancien Régime. En semblamble, nous avons vérifié les changements de sens donnés à ses texts ; cela est dû on le croit bien, à la consolidation d’une image de perversité que s’est collée au nom de cet auteur et qui a certainement fonctionnée comme guide pour une lecture historique de son héritage critique depuis le XVIIIe siècle. Nous avons également observé les préférences de lecture de M. de Sade, le dialogue qu’il a réalisé avec ses contemporains et les choix qu’il a fait concernant ses différentes façons d’ecrire. Tout cela, à notre avis permis de soutenir la nature conservatrice de l’interpretation qu’il a fait de la France et de la histoire. Chez De Sade, les idées conservatrices peuvent être traduites par une façon de pensée particulière, soit, traversée par certains paris sceptiques tels que : la vie et la faculté du jugé qui sont engendrées à chaque situation. Ces idées approchent aussi les rapports de M. de Sade avec les conceptions populaires du corps et nature à l’égard desquelles il existe une symétrie entre le bien et le mal. La vie et l’histoire pour De Sade ce ne sont enfin que le resultat d’un équilibre entre ces deux forces.

Orientador: Elisabeth Bauch Zimmermann / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T04:12:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gatti_Daniela_D.pdf: 4578726 bytes, checksum: 32f01a8268240dba2beeedac780c5c77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa traz o processo de criação de Vícios e Virtudes - Drama em Dança como objeto de reflexão e análise. O espetáculo é uma apropriação dos romances do autor iluminista francês Marquês de Sade (1740 - 1814): Justine, os Infortúnios da Virtude e Juliette, a Prosperidade do Vício com o intuito de transpor para a linguagem do corpo-cênico, o universo antagônico sadiano entre o vício e a virtude, representados pelas personagens Justine e Juliette. A primeira parte da tese fundamenta a transposição do universo literário para o corpo que dança, ou seja, um corpo-texto a partir de eventos como a imaginação, a polaridade, a apropriação e o dialogismo. A segunda parte descreve o processo do espetáculo, apresentando os elementos materiais, procedimentos e as idéias como subsídios na representação ficcional e simbólica através do drama em dança. A tese propõe o diálogo entre as diferentes áreas das artes: dança, música, teatro e literatura como um caminho metodológico para o desenvolvimento de um processo artístico em redes de saberes / Abstract: The present research brings the creative process of Vícios e Virtudes - Drama em Dança as an object of reflection and analysis. The performance is a gathering of the French Illuminist author Marques of Sade (1740 - 1814)'s novels Justine, the misfortunes of virtue and Juliette, the prosperity of vice aiming to transpose to the scenic-body language the Sadian antagonic universe between vice and virtue, represented by characters Justine and Juliette. The first part of the thesis gives base to the transposition of the literary universe to the dancing body, or a text-body based on events like imagination, polarity, appropriation and dialogue. The second part describes the performance process, presenting the material elements, procedures and ideas as subsides in the fictional and symbolical representation through drama in dance. The thesis proposes the dialogue between the different areas of art: dance, music, theater and literature as a methodological way to the development of an artistic process in a knowledge net / Doutorado / Artes Cenicas / Doutor em Artes

Ce mémoire porte sur la relation de l'œuvre de Sade à la modernité. De Sade qui, en ce qu'il ne s'est pas laissé aveugler, qu’il a su voir l'obscurité immanente aux Lumières, doit être considéré comme un voyant. Ce que d'aucuns appellent sa folie, c'est-à-dire la raison naturelle, bourgeoise par lui chantée et exacerbée, c'est un miroir tourné dans notre direction, un miroir dans lequel nos sociétés refusent de voir leur propre raison instrumentalisée, leur propre raison mise au service de l'égoïsme, de l'autoconservation. Face à ce refus, l'œuvre de Sade apparaît comme le refoulé de notre modernité. Dans un premier temps, ce mémoire examine la filiation esthétique de Sade à Baudelaire et s'attache, par l'entremise d'une étude comparative des figures du libertin et du dandy, à démontrer comment l'esthétique négative de Baudelaire présuppose la conception sadienne du mal comme intimement lié à la nature et à la raison, comment elle la transfigure de sorte que c'est seulement à partir de cette conscience dans le mal que Baudelaire en arrive à penser le bien, qu'elle constitue pour lui la seule possibilité de se réformer, de devenir à la fois humain et lucide. Il faut toujours en revenir à de Sade pour expliquer le mal, écrit Baudelaire, qui fait ainsi de Sade ou du moins de son fantôme, puisque celui-ci n'est que rarement nommé, une figure clé de la conscience dans le Mal, condition sine qua non de la modernité baudelairienne. Dans un second temps, c'est à la notion de petite souveraineté que s'intéresse ce mémoire. Souveraineté par procuration qui interdit la réelle souveraineté, elle est le produit de l'assujettissement du libertin à la nature, à la Raison, cette Raison naturelle et bourgeoise. Et l'éducation naturelle par laquelle le libertin cherche à assujettir l'Autre, lui qui ne peut posséder qu'en soumettant autrui au système auquel lui-même s'est consciemment soumis, lui le possédé-possédant, le fantôme d'homme faiseur de fantômes lui-même, est reproduction à son compte de son propre assujettissement. Cette notion de petite souveraineté s'oppose à une tradition de critiques idéalistes, qui, se méprenant sur la parenté du dandy et du libertin, héroïsant ce dernier, voient en lui un sujet libre, souverain, sans se rendre compte que sa Raison est historiquement lourde de conséquences. / This essay examines the relation of de Sade's works with modernity. De Sade is a visionary: he wasn't blinded by the Enlightment, in which he saw an inherent darkness. What some perceived as his madness — the natural reason, the bourgeois reason which he celebrates and exacerbates — is a mirror of our own, a mirror in which our societies refuse to see themselves and their own utilitarian reason, guided by opportunism and self-conservation. This refusal shows de Sade's works as a part of our modernity which we seek to suppress — de Sade as le refoulé de notre modernité. First, this essay looks at the esthetic filiation from de Sade to Baudelaire and, by comparing de Sade's libertine and Baudelaire's dandy, shows how the negative esthetic of Baudelaire presupposes de Sade's conception of Evil as a product of nature and reason, and how it transfigures this conception in such a way that Good can only proceed of this awareness in Evil, through which lies the only possibility to become at once human and lucid. One must always go back to de Sade to understand Evil, writes Baudelaire, who thus highlights de Sade's — or rather a ghost of de Sade, as his name is seldom mentioned in Baudelaire's — key role in this concept of conscience dans le Mal, making him the sine qua non condition of his modernity. The second part of this essay analyzes the notion of petite souveraineté. This borrowed sovereignty, which forbids the real sovereignty, is the product of the libertine's subjection to nature and to Reason, i.e. to the bourgeois and natural Reason. The natural education by which the libertine — he who can only possess by submitting the other to the system to which he consciously submitted himself, the possessed yearning to possess, the man reduced to a ghost who create ghosts himself — wants to dominate the Other(s) is a reproduction for himself of his own subjection. This notion of petite souveraineté confronts a tradition of idealistic critics who see in the libertine the subject of a total liberty, a sovereign subject – and thus who don't notice that the historical meaning of his Reason is laden with consequences.

My dissertation examines the question of how the incorporation of literary forms and techniques into written denunciations radicalizes the discursive practices of accusation during the French Revolution. I explore how the exploitation of literary elements such as genre and rhetorical strategies by revolutionary writers increases the scope and virulence of their attacks and contributes to the radicalization in the text of three key figures: the author-narrator, the imagined reader, and the object of denunciation. In the first part, I study the use of these strategies and their impacts on tone and the communication of meaning in two forms of the popular press: the ephemeral newspapers of 1789 (journals with under twenty issues) and the Private Lives (scandalous biographies of important public figures). In part two I show how writers with first-hand knowledge of recent violence and the deadliness of denunciation become confronted with the problem of how to condemn the worst aspects of the Revolution without partaking in incendiary speech themselves. Although still denouncing to a certain extent, these writers also try to resolve this dilemma through plays with perspective and parody. I examine this phenomenon in case studies of three authors who lived through the Revolution and whose writings were impacted to varying degrees by the events of 1789 to 1795: Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Louis Sebation Mercier, and the Marquis de Sade. My study is situated at the crossroads of previous historical and literary scholarship on denunciation. Historians examining the practice of denunciation have investigated contemporary debates over calumny and the limits of free speech, the de individualization of the object of attack, and the impact of the period's obsession with transparency on the conceptualization of the denounced individual. These studies concentrate for the most part on political discourses and debates, laws, and the mechanics of the press and print culture. Scholarship analyzing rhetorical and literary aspects of revolutionary texts has slowly begun to emerge, and these literary analyses by historians on clandestine literature have identified important trends and have performed key case studies. My study supplements this existing work by focusing on such neglected areas as the relationship between the author and his imagined reader, while presenting a wider examination of the circulation of discourses between these texts to begin to grasp how these writers responded to, attacked, and adopted the denunciatory culture of their time.

The thesis is devoted to the work of the French writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and three female 20th-century French novelists Laure, Pauline Réage and Jeanne de Berg, whose work draws inspiration from Sade's. In the first part of the thesis we focus on the Marquis de Sade. First, we recount the key events in Sade's adolescence and family life, his sexual indulgences and particularly his lengthy imprisonment, as these had profound influence on his work. Next we highlight the relevant historical incidents of his time and discuss the position of his work within the so- called libertin literary movement. Then we proceed to analyze the themes and motifs of Sade's three pivotal books: 120 Days of Sodom (Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome), Justine (Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu), and Juliette (Histoire de Juliette). Our analysis points out a deeper philosophical message that can be found behind erotic themes of Sade's work. In the final sections we describe the fate of Sade's legacy in the 19th century and also his rehabilitation in the 20th century, when his writings have finally been critically studied and his collective works published. The second part of the thesis concentrates on Sade's female followers in the 20th century: Collette Peignot alias Laure (Laure: Écrits),...

Ce mémoire porte sur la relation de l'œuvre de Sade à la modernité. De Sade qui, en ce qu'il ne s'est pas laissé aveugler, qu’il a su voir l'obscurité immanente aux Lumières, doit être considéré comme un voyant. Ce que d'aucuns appellent sa folie, c'est-à-dire la raison naturelle, bourgeoise par lui chantée et exacerbée, c'est un miroir tourné dans notre direction, un miroir dans lequel nos sociétés refusent de voir leur propre raison instrumentalisée, leur propre raison mise au service de l'égoïsme, de l'autoconservation. Face à ce refus, l'œuvre de Sade apparaît comme le refoulé de notre modernité. Dans un premier temps, ce mémoire examine la filiation esthétique de Sade à Baudelaire et s'attache, par l'entremise d'une étude comparative des figures du libertin et du dandy, à démontrer comment l'esthétique négative de Baudelaire présuppose la conception sadienne du mal comme intimement lié à la nature et à la raison, comment elle la transfigure de sorte que c'est seulement à partir de cette conscience dans le mal que Baudelaire en arrive à penser le bien, qu'elle constitue pour lui la seule possibilité de se réformer, de devenir à la fois humain et lucide. Il faut toujours en revenir à de Sade pour expliquer le mal, écrit Baudelaire, qui fait ainsi de Sade ou du moins de son fantôme, puisque celui-ci n'est que rarement nommé, une figure clé de la conscience dans le Mal, condition sine qua non de la modernité baudelairienne. Dans un second temps, c'est à la notion de petite souveraineté que s'intéresse ce mémoire. Souveraineté par procuration qui interdit la réelle souveraineté, elle est le produit de l'assujettissement du libertin à la nature, à la Raison, cette Raison naturelle et bourgeoise. Et l'éducation naturelle par laquelle le libertin cherche à assujettir l'Autre, lui qui ne peut posséder qu'en soumettant autrui au système auquel lui-même s'est consciemment soumis, lui le possédé-possédant, le fantôme d'homme faiseur de fantômes lui-même, est reproduction à son compte de son propre assujettissement. Cette notion de petite souveraineté s'oppose à une tradition de critiques idéalistes, qui, se méprenant sur la parenté du dandy et du libertin, héroïsant ce dernier, voient en lui un sujet libre, souverain, sans se rendre compte que sa Raison est historiquement lourde de conséquences. / This essay examines the relation of de Sade's works with modernity. De Sade is a visionary: he wasn't blinded by the Enlightment, in which he saw an inherent darkness. What some perceived as his madness — the natural reason, the bourgeois reason which he celebrates and exacerbates — is a mirror of our own, a mirror in which our societies refuse to see themselves and their own utilitarian reason, guided by opportunism and self-conservation. This refusal shows de Sade's works as a part of our modernity which we seek to suppress — de Sade as le refoulé de notre modernité. First, this essay looks at the esthetic filiation from de Sade to Baudelaire and, by comparing de Sade's libertine and Baudelaire's dandy, shows how the negative esthetic of Baudelaire presupposes de Sade's conception of Evil as a product of nature and reason, and how it transfigures this conception in such a way that Good can only proceed of this awareness in Evil, through which lies the only possibility to become at once human and lucid. One must always go back to de Sade to understand Evil, writes Baudelaire, who thus highlights de Sade's — or rather a ghost of de Sade, as his name is seldom mentioned in Baudelaire's — key role in this concept of conscience dans le Mal, making him the sine qua non condition of his modernity. The second part of this essay analyzes the notion of petite souveraineté. This borrowed sovereignty, which forbids the real sovereignty, is the product of the libertine's subjection to nature and to Reason, i.e. to the bourgeois and natural Reason. The natural education by which the libertine — he who can only possess by submitting the other to the system to which he consciously submitted himself, the possessed yearning to possess, the man reduced to a ghost who create ghosts himself — wants to dominate the Other(s) is a reproduction for himself of his own subjection. This notion of petite souveraineté confronts a tradition of idealistic critics who see in the libertine the subject of a total liberty, a sovereign subject – and thus who don't notice that the historical meaning of his Reason is laden with consequences.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-01T17:55:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-04-06. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-04-01T18:01:23Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000859299.pdf: 1218234 bytes, checksum: 84868a517f29e833b65c8d75273035a4 (MD5) / Résumé: Rimbaud, Molière et Sade. Ces sont les trois écrivans français qui ont été honorés, respectivement, par les brésiliens Leandro Konder, Rubem Fonseca et Bernardo Carvalho, dans la collection Literatura ou morte, de 2000, publiée par Companhia das Letras. L'idée de la collection est apparue lorsque Leandro Konder a soumis à son éditeur l'originel de son roman A morte de Rimbaud, où il cite le poète français dans le titre, et en plus, il fait plusieurs références à la littérature française. Heureux du résultat, le rédacteur Luis Schwarcz a contacté plusieurs écrivains pour créer des romans qui doivent suivre le même modèle de A morte de Rimbaud, en prenant deux prémisses fondamentales: qu'ils soient des romans policiers et qu'ils contiennent le nom d'un écrivain consacré par la critique et par le public. Parmi les sept volumes qui ont suivi la proposition, on a O doente Molière et Medo de Sade. Dans la construction de ces romans leurs auteurs ont été menés à revoir les biographies et les oeuvres de chacun des écrivains honorés, en fournissant des relectures et de nouvelles significations pour elles. Le but de notre travail est d'étudier les raisons qui ont fait que Konder, Fonseca et Carvalho choisissent comme thème de leurs oeuvres littéraires précisément ces trois écrivains, en essayant de démontrer que ce choix n'a pas été arbitraire, mais dirigé par l'éditeur, qui à part la promotion obtenue grâce aux références faites aux noms des auteurs classiques, atteint un nouveau type de lecteurs. La collection permet à ses écrivains de suivre deux propositions de récit en même temps, elle se caractérise à la fois comme une littérature de divertissement, marquée par le choix de la forme, le roman policier et la biographie, et une littérature de proposition, marquée par le thème, concernant les oeuvres de auteurs classiques... / Rimbaud, Molière e Sade. Estes são os três escritores franceses homenageados, respectivamente, por Leandro Konder, Rubem Fonseca e Bernardo Carvalho, na coleção Literatura ou morte, de 2000, da editora Companhia das Letras. A ideia da coleção teria surgido quando Leandro Konder apresentou a seu editor os originais do romance A morte de Rimbaud, em que, além de citar o poeta francês no título, inclui referências à literatura francesa. Contente com o resultado, o editor Luís Schwarcz contatou vários escritores para criarem romances que seguissem o mesmo modelo de A morte de Rimbaud, atendendo a duas premissas fundamentais: que fossem romances policiais e envolvessem o nome de um escritor consagrado pela crítica e pelo público, já falecido. Entre os sete volumes que seguiram a proposta, estão O doente Molière e Medo de Sade. Na construção destes romances seus autores foram levados a revisitar as biografias e as obras de cada um dos escritores homenageados, proporcionando releituras e novos significados a elas. O objetivo de nosso trabalho é investigar os motivos que levaram Konder, Fonseca e Carvalho a escolherem como tema de seus trabalhos literários justamente estes três escritores, além de constatar que esta escolha não foi arbitrária, mas direcionada pela editora, que além de se promover com a referência aos nomes dos escritores clássicos, coloca diante de si um novo nicho de leitores. A coleção possibilita a seus escritores seguirem duas propostas narrativas ao mesmo tempo, pois se caracteriza tanto como uma literatura de entretenimento, marcada pela escolha da forma, narrativa policial e biografia, e uma literatura de proposta, marcada pelo tema, que são as obras de escritores clássicos. São romances escritos tanto para aquele que busca na leitura um passatempo de viagem, como o acadêmico que procura nas entrelinhas citações e alusões a outros escritores... / Rimbaud, Molière and Sade. These are the three french writers honored, respectively, by Leandro Konder, Rubem Fonseca and Bernardo Carvalho, at the collection Literatura ou morte (2000 published by Companhia das Letras. The idea of the collection would have appeared when Leandro Konder submitted to his publisher the original novel A morte de Rimbaud, in that in addition to quote the french poet in the title, includes references to french literature. Enthusiastic with the result, the publisher Luis Schwarcz contacted several writers to create novels that follow the same model of A morte de Rimbaud, serving two fundamental assumptions: that they were crime novels and involved the name of an established writer by critics and the public, now deceased. Between the seven volumes that followed the proposal are O doente Molière and Medo de Sade. In constructing these novels his authors were brought to revisit the biographies and works of each of the honored writers, providing readings and new meanings to them. The goal of our work is to investigate the reasons Konder, Carvalho and Fonseca to choose the theme of his literary works precisely these three writers, and demonstrated that these choices was not arbitrary, but directed by the publisher, which besides promoting with the reference to the names of classical writers, sets before itself a new group of readers. The collection allows its writers follow two narratives proposals at the same time, it is characterized both as an entertainment literature, marked by the choice of form, crime novel, and biography, and a proposal literature, marked by the theme, which are the classical writers works. These are novels written for both the reader who search a traveling hobby, as to the academic who seeks the references and allusions to other writers. In addition, we aimed to draw a reading that considers the three works together, this perspective that glimpse the formation of a historical-literary...

Le libertinage semble avoir toujours été méconnu, caricaturé et considéré comme un mouvement sans envergure philosophique. Cependant, si la notion de libertinage s’est construite sur la vision négative de ses détracteurs, elle a néanmoins des fondements idéologiques, philosophiques et stylistiques solides mais souvent incompris, car les libertins ont toujours refusé toute forme de dogmatisme. Ils ne proposent donc pas un système philosophique mais un mode de pensée dans lequel le lecteur doit pouvoir élaborer sa propre vision du monde ainsi qu’un modèle idéal de vie et de sagesse. Cette continuité a été mise au jour par la critique actuelle chez les libertins du dix-Septième siècle, que l’on nomme « érudits » depuis la thèse de René Pintard en 1943. Cependant, la périodisation scinde le mouvement libertin en deux et nie la possibilité d’une continuité entre les auteurs libertins du dix-Septième siècle et ceux du dix-Huitième siècle considérés comme mineurs. A traves l’étude de quatre œuvres libertines des dix-Septième et dix-Huitième siècles (Les États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil de Cyrano de Bergerac, Dom Juan de Molière, Thérèse philosophe de Boyer d’Argens et les trois versions de Justine de Sade) et leur confrontation aux textes théoriques et critiques qui définissent les enjeux du libertinage, cette continuité est mise en avant et étudiée dans cinq directions fondamentales : le refus des croyances, la valorisation d’une démarche scientifique, la relativisation des valeurs, l’existence d’une herméneutique matérialiste et la constitution d’un idéal politique, social et philosophique. / It seems that libertinism has always been misread, distorted and regarded as a movement with a limited scale. However, even if the establishment of the notion of libertinism was based on the negative vision spread by its detractors, it was actually a strong ideology, philosophy and style that was often misunderstood because the libertins always denied all kind of dogma. Therefore, they do not propose a philosophical model but a way of thinking in which the reader has to figure one’s own vision of the world as well as an ideal model of life and wisdom. This continuity was revealed by the contemporary criticism of the libertins from the seventeenth century, that we name “Scholars” since the thesis developed by René Pintard in 1943. But the chronology divides the movement in two periods and denies the possibility of a continuity between the libertine authors from the seventeenth century and those from the eighteenth century, regarded as minors authors. Through the study of four libertine pieces from the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries (Les États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil by Cyrano de Bergerac, Dom Juan by Molière, Thérèse philosophe by Boyer d’Argens and the three versions of Justine by Sade) and through their comparison with the stakes of libertinism defined by the theoretical texts and criticism, this continuity is highlighted and studied in five fundamental ways : refusal of beliefs, the promotion of a scientific approach, putting common values in perspective, the existence of a materialistic hermeneutics and the constitution of a political, social and philosophical ideal.

Le domaine de la psychologie procède actuellement à l’abandon partiel de la conception du BDSM en tant que psychopathologie. Pourtant, depuis le début des années 2000, on observe une augmentation considérable de la présence au cinéma de personnages neurodivergents et malheureux qui pratiquent le BDSM. Des coproductions transeuropéennes comme Nymp()manic (Lars von Trier, 2013) aux longs métrages indépendants australiens comme My Mistress (Stephen Lance, 2014), passant par les films américains grands publics comme Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015) le BDSM au cinéma apparaît comme n’étant pratiqué que par des personnes à l’existence trouble et à la santé mentale fragile. L’objectif de cette thèse sera de définir les nombreux biais qui motivent cette mythologie du mal-être. Afin d’examiner de plus près le fossé entre la représentation du BDSM au cinéma et la recherche récente en sciences sociales qui se penche la population sadomasochiste, nous avons développé une étude de cas sur Nymph()maniac de Lars von Trier. Nous avons également récolté les réactions au film de personnes pour lesquelles la dominance ou la soumission ritualisée fait partie de leur expérience de la sexualité. Nous proposons donc un dialogue interprétatif entre la psychologie, la critique littéraire et les études culturelles féministes pour analyser le film de von Trier. / The formerly widespread view of BDSM as a psychological disorder is currently being abandoned by large portions of the scientific community; it has been almost completely removed from the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and a growing number of studies point toward the psychological and social normalcy of BDSM practitioners. Yet, since the early 2000’s, from trans-european productions like Nymph()maniac (Lars von Trier, 2013) to independent Australian features like My Mistress (Stephen Lance, 2014), or mainstream american films like Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015), the onscreen portrayal of BDSM practitioners increasingly consists of characters with troubled lives and fragile mental healths. The aim of this thesis will be to investigate the many biases that motivate this mythology of unease surrounding BDSM in film. In order to take a closer look at the gap between current research in psychology and cultural representation of BDSM we developed a case study of Nymph()maniac, which features, among a wide array of sexual proclivities, a temporary D/s relationship. With the intention of gaining access to the perspective of women-identified people from the BDSM community on the way they are represented in movies, we generated a focus group and gathered their reactions. We therefore propose an interpretative dialogue between the BDSM community, literary criticism, sociology, psychology and feminist cultural studies.

Ce projet de recherche-création s’applique à analyser le motif de la destruction dans le cinéma extrême. M’intéressant plus particulièrement à une frange underground et «infréquentable» du genre et au lien souterrain unissant celle-ci et l’oeuvre du Marquis de Sade, j’étudierai la façon dont la destruction y est représentée (et épuisée) à travers un passage de la destruction de l’autre à la destruction de soi. La partie écrite de ce mémoire s’accompagne d’un moyen-métrage, Une autre journée (voir Annexe 2) ainsi que d’une installation vidéo préliminaire, Your heart out (voir Annexe 1). / This research-creation project aims to analyse the motif of destruction in extreme cinema. With a specific interest toward an underground and « unacceptable » part of the genre and its unspoken connection to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, I will attempt to show how destruction is represented (and exhausted) therein through a passage from the destruction of others to a destruction of one’s self. The written portion of this thesis is accompagnied by a medium-lenght film, Une autre journée [Another day] (see Annexe 2) as well as a preleminary video installation, Your heart out (see Annexe 1).