Abstract
Andre Gide was a writer who devoted his life to literature. According to Jean Delay, the author of Gide’s psychobiography, the work of the writer “[...] is one of the most complete essays done by a man to understand and explain oneself”. Andre Gide himself in his autobiographical novel, If it dies , affirmed: “At this innocent age in which we want every soul to be not only transparent, but tender, and pure, what I see in me is only darkness, deformity, and dissimulation”. Based on this, we pose the following question: What did writing mean to Gide? Which would the contribution of such work for psychoanalysis? Would have Andre Gide overcome his anguish through literature? In this text I intended to reflect on these issues keeping in mind the Freudian premise which says that art comes before psychoanalysis. So, I let myself be taught by Gide’s writings.
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