Des mirages du désir de néant chez Samuel Beckett, du malaise adolescent aujourd’hui et du besoin de médiations thérapeutiques bien accordées

Abstract

Samuel Beckett, at the start of his adult life, had all the characteristics of a psychotic withdrawal. Before Waiting for Godot, which would bring him fame, the first play he composed entirely wad called Eleutheria (“Freedom” in Greek) and describes the confinement of a teenager at his parents’ home. Perhaps because resembled too closely his own privacy, the author always refused publication and staging. “Less an action than a site, often empty”, according to the indication given in the preamble by the author, this dramaturgy obviously has substantial links to the rest of the work. We criticize that to understand this many spoke of the writing of “exhaustion” and some assumed that Beckett would have treated a psychosis, perhaps an autism, by his creativity. Understanding of his biography could point more towards the psychological profile of a borderline state with, at the same time, the threat of an overflow of excitement and the strong apprehension of the feeling of emptiness if this same excitation ceases to be felt. Above all, his writings and his life have inspired us to think about the contemporary world and review the concepts of therapeutic mediation.