[Madness in Zola's writing. II. Interactions of insanity in La Joie de Vivre. 1. Situations and psychopathologic...

In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E. Zola, madness in full interaction call to a psychopathological analysis which is doing in three parts: The situations and psychopathological types; the psychopathological and anthropological relationship; The text's unconscious and the work of mourning. This part, proposes the analysis of the psychopathological types (cyclic psychosis of Lazare, the "typus melancholicus" of Véronique, the paranoia of madam Chanteau, the "crack" and masochism of Pauline) and the pathogenic-situations in the most narrow interaction ("in" and "out" of the personages). A differential analysis is proposed between the pessimist position and the nihilist one, in a therapeutic perspective.