Comment aborder la litterature des espaces francophones europeens en dehors de la France ? Identite et/ou alterite ? Qu en pensent les auteur-e-s concerne-e-s vis-a-vis de leur ecriture ? Ce volume est issu du colloque qui a eu lieu a l Universite d Edimbourg les 14 et 15 mars 2008, dont les objectifs etaient d explorer les notions d identite et d alterite dans les espaces francophones europeens, tout particulierement en Belgique et en Suisse romande, sans oublier les ecrivain-e-s qui sont en quelque sorte en exil par rapport a leur pays et/ou leur langue. Ce livre presente un eventail d...

This collection of essays explores the ways in which talking therapies have been depicted in twentieth century and contemporary narratives (life-writings, fiction and poetry) in French. This vibrant corpus of francophone literary engagements of therapy has so far been widely unexplored, but it offers rich insights into the connections between literature and psychoanalysis. As the number of autobiographical and fictional depictions of the therapeutic encounter is still on the rise, these creative outputs raise pressing questions: why do narratives of the therapeutic encounter continue to...