I and the Other: André Baillon’s Un homme si simple (1925), A « Schéma L » avant la lettre

André Baillon (1875-1932) is a modernist French-writing Belgian author. Voluntarily interned twice in the famous French psychiatric hospital of “La Salpêtrière†(where Charcot, Janet, and even the young Freud carried out some research), his stay there as well as his own psychic sufferings gave him the material for three of his major works: Un homme si simple (1925), Chalet 1 (1926), and Le Perce-Oreille du Luxembourg (1928). However, far from being madman notebooks, these productions show an extreme awareness of his psychic conflicts. In this communication, focusing on the incipit of the... Mehr ...