From the umbilical cord to madness in Ariana Harwicz’s

Abstract

With her visceral, fragmented, abyssal and uncomfortable writing, Ariana Harwicz, author of the Passion Trilogy ("Die, love", 2012; "Feebleminded", 2014; and "Precocious", 2016) continues to offer us, in the second book of the sequence, a dizzying dive into mother-daughter relationships, interspected throught violence, eroticism, madness and destruction. This story, traversed by the complex webs of the feminine, understood here through the lens of psychoanalysis and Lacan's teaching (1972), encourages us to think about the production of the body from the perspective of a maternal-social role that subverted that of the "good mother" (Badinter, 2011) and which points, in our understanding, to the mother-enigma, the failure of the semblance, the devastation that summons, according to psychoanalysis, "the impossible fusion" (Brousse, 2004) of the maternal mark that embodies the subject, in other words, the one that puts flesh on a body that is Other through discourse, through language.