The texts in this reading were written betwen 1880 and 1930 by men and women who were in the Hôpital Sainte-Anne, hospital for the mentally ill. Because they offered therapeutic interest in a period before Freud, before psychiatry, these people escaped from the "disgrace" of being ignored, but not from anonymity. We know nothing about them, their lives, who they really were, only that they were suffering and their conditions were pathologically irreversible. Beyond their fight with the monsters of the unconscious mind, through their more or less obvious symptoms, these writings again show how astonishing is the obscurity of meaning that distinguishes the poet from the insane.
Distribution
a reading by : Anne Benoit
with artistic contribution from : Jean Lacornerie
Production
Production : Festival d'Avignon