Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition

Andrew Asibong

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Source:: Marie NDiaye
Publisher:: Liverpool University Press

Abraham, Nicolas 26–27, 140

Académie Française 10

addiction 54, 64

Adjani, Isabelle 135

affectlessness 13, 43–44

Agamben, Giorgio 20–21, 58, 72

aliveness 71, 91–92, 104, 116, 141, 151, 171, 172, 216n3

Aminel, Georges 218n1

amnesia 83–86, 87–89, 119–120, 216n11

angels 39, 108, 147, 174

Angot, Christine 219n5

anorexia 45–46, 124, 145, 160, 214n13

Apostrophes (television show) 42–43

Arnould-Bloomfield, Elisabeth 83, 216n10

attachment theory 48–49

Aubry, Martine 12

aunts 5, 34, 37–39, 42, 54–55, 59–60, 125, 163–164, 222n12

automata see zombification

bad objects 166, 222n13

Bartmann, Sarah 119

Barrie, J. M.

Peter Pan 150

Baudelaire, Charles 42, 215n20

Bayser, Clotilde de 126

Beauvoir, Simone de 218n26

Beckett, Samuel 9, 48, 174, 210n3, 215n17, 221n2

En attendant Godot 113, 117

Fin de partie 128

Behar, Clarissa 56, 100, 218n27

Bélier-García, Frédéric 109

Bengsch, Daniel 215n23

Berlin 12, 70, 73, 137, 221n1

Bernstein, Michèle 10

Bersani, Leo 210n3

Besand, Vanessa 213n21

Bion, Wilfred 174, 221n2

container function 91, 98, 143–144

‘K’ 16, 212n13

learning from experience 93

maternal reverie 130, 173

‘O’ 222n2

bisexuality 74, 96, 128

‘blancness’ 19–23, 171–172

blank mourning 24–25, 41, 65

Bollas, Christopher 215n28

Bordeaux 28, 94, 96, 216n6

Bourg-la-Reine 6

breast 60, 98, 108

Breitman, Zabou 109

Brive-la-Gaillarde 73

Bulgakov, Mikhail

The Master and Margarita 48

Burnautzki, Sarah 10, 100, 217n13, 217n21, 218n27

Butler, Judith 109

capitalism 48, 52, 108, 110

caricature 58, 128–129

Carroll, Lewis 65

Carter, Kevin 220n14

Cendrey, Jean-Yves 12, 70, 86, 109, 211n11, 221n3

Cervantes, Miguel de

(p.241) Don Quixote 55, 83

child abuse 26, 57, 62, 76–79, 81, 86–87, 89, 109, 112, 129–132, 141, 142–144, 148, 150, 165

children 31–32, 53–54, 142–167

children’s literature 144–145, 161–167

Chion, Michel 220n20

Choplin, Olivia J. 112

Cixous, Hélène 122

class consciousness 102, 134–136, 137, 147

Clifford, Lucie

‘The New Mother’ 212n17

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel 12

Comédie-Française, La 1, 12, 31, 33, 69, 109, 219n1

community 72, 80–81, 92, 216n3

Connan-Pintado, Christiane 161

Confucius 69

corporeality 10, 16, 74, 98–99, 100, 127, 216n8

Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine 11

Cottille-Foley, Nora 213n3, 215n18, 216n11

Crépu, Michel 70

Cronenberg, David 212n18

dark mother fantasy 59–60, 215n22

Darrieussecq, Marie 210n4, 215n1, 221n5

dead mother complex 24–27, 41–42, 58–59, 65–68, 89–90, 106, 115–117, 150, 151, 157, 170–171, 212n16

Delanoë, Bertrand 13

Denis, Claire 70, 137, 216n2

depression 37, 41–42, 44, 47, 60, 67–68, 104, 130–131, 150, 160, 163, 167, 212n16

Deutsch, Helene

as-if personality 17

Devil, the 28, 49–50, 52, 91

disavowal 8, 13, 14–18, 42–43, 56–58, 62, 77–79, 86–89, 93–95

disintegration 35, 61, 63, 67, 71, 82–83, 111, 145, 152

disorganized attachment 106, 157–158

dissociation 29, 37–38, 50–51, 56–59, 84–85, 106, 152

Dolto, Françoise 220n20

Duras, Marguerite 9, 48, 122, 211n9, 216n2

Dutoit, Ulysse 210n3

Eaton, Pauline 217n17, 217n22

Edwards, Richey James 32

Eigen, Michael 165

Electra 46, 47

Ellis, Brett Easton 83

Ellison, Ralph 56

Engel, André 118, 123

Esterson, Aaron 106

Fairbairn, Ronald 117, 166

fairy tale 145, 146

family romances 213n5

Fanon, Frantz 121, 135, 212n15

fantastic, the 5, 28–30, 35, 63, 67–68, 113

fathers 7, 27–28, 49–50, 89, 105, 106–108, 123–124, 147–148, 149–150, 152, 158, 212n19

see also mothering; parenting

Faulkner, William 217n24

feeding 38–39, 41, 88–89, 97–99, 108, 112, 213n8, 214n13

fetishism 15, 47

Figaro, Le (newspaper) 10

Flaubert, Gustave 64, 83, 99, 103, 145, 155, 212n18, 218n26

Fletcher, John 100

Fourton, Maud 82

Frank, Anne 32

Freud, Sigmund 15–16, 18, 92, 112, 140, 142, 213n7, 217n16

friendship 39–40, 61, 92, 135, 149

frustration 40–41, 50–51

Gaiman, Neil 212n17

Gallimard 137, 211n9

Ganzin, Julie 221n6

García Márquez, Gabriel 84, 216n12

Garner, Lydia Holt 212n13

gender 48, 50–51, 52–53

(p.242) Genet, Jean 215n17

ghosts see spectrality

ghouls see vampirism

Giovacchini, Peter L.

blank self 17–18

Gish, Lillian 42

Goffman, Erving 29

Golden, Thelma 213n2

Green, André 24–25, 41–42, 55, 65, 106, 127, 212n16

Grimm Brothers 145

Guadeloupe 49, 73, 85

Guibert, Hervé 214n15, 219n5

guilt 166

Guntrip, Harry 14

Hallward, Peter 222n2

Haneke, Michael 134

happy endings 99, 162, 167, 218n25

hell 49, 54, 128

Hill, Leslie 34

Hitchcock, Alfred

Birds, The 214n14

Marnie 107, 214n14

Psycho 48, 52, 214n14

Rebecca 214n14

Vertigo 214n14

Hoffmann, E.T.A 65, 215n26

Holocaust, the 221n1

homosexuality 74, 96, 149

hospitality 215n24

Hottentot Venus see Bartmann, Sarah

Hughes, Langston 218n24

Huppert, Isabelle 216n2

incest 26, 86–87, 105–106, 151, 152

infanticide 47, 52, 119

infantilization 40–41, 50–51, 65, 112, 145–146, 156

Ionesco, Eugène 122

Ippolito, Christophe 100, 218n26

Inrockuptibles, Les (magazine) 70

intelligence 60–61, 140–141, 151, 164

integration 9, 61, 63

irony 57

Jambet, Christian 222n2

James, Henry 33, 212n18

Jesus Christ 91, 152, 154

Job, Book of 93

Jordan, Shirley 100, 215n24, 222n1

Jung, Carl 144, 221n2

Kafka, Franz 5, 33, 34, 55, 66, 83, 122, 215n19

Kane, Sarah 112, 122

Keats, John

negative capability 171

Kessous, Guila Clara 219n4

King, Stephen 215n19

Klein, Melanie 108

Kubrick, Stanley 175

Lacan, Jacques 211n12

Lafayette, Mme de 11

Laing, R. D. 106

Lakanal Lycée 9

Laplanche, Jean 220n19

Larsen, Nella 56, 217n24

Laughton, Charles

Night of the Hunter, The 42

Leclair, Bertrand 11

Lepape, Pierre 1, 10, 82

liberalism 117–118, 125, 135

Libération (newspaper) 10, 69, 215n1

Lindon, Irène 220n16

Lindon, Jérôme 9, 49–50, 211n9, 220n16

Lindon, Mathieu 220n16

Lindon, Vincent 220n16

liquefaction see disintegration

logorrhoea 43–44, 114

loneliness 37–42, 55, 166–167

Lorca, Federico García 154, 219n10

love 42, 54–55, 122–123, 146, 152–153, 165–166

Lynch, David 172, 210n1, 212n18, 220n20, 222n1

Makward, Christiane 11

Manic Street Preachers 69

Mannoni, Octave 112

masochism 58, 156

materterality see aunts

matricide 43, 44, 46–47

(p.243) >Medea 47

mère morte, la see dead mother complex

metamorphosis 29, 48, 63–64

métissage see mixed-race identity

Meurée, Christophe 111

Miller, Alice 34, 140

Minuit, Les Éditions de 9, 43, 48, 211n9

Mitchell, Juliet 1

Mitterand, Frédéric 12

mixed-race identity 8, 18–23, 105, 106–108, 218n1

Modell, Arnold 170

Molière 2, 7

‘moja sestra’ syndrome 213n9

Monde, Le (newspaper) 10

Monroe, Marilyn 214n10

Moorjani, Angela 174

Morrison, Toni

Beloved 118

The Bluest Eye 56

mothering 24–27, 45, 58–59, 79–80, 81, 92–93, 97–98, 105, 107–108, 115–116, 130, 153–154, 156–157, 162, 216n9

see also fathers; parenting

Moudileno, Lydie 10, 12, 33, 55, 82, 100, 211n10, 218n27

muteness 2–3, 88–89, 118

Myrrha 105

Nadja 161

NDiaye, Marie, works

Autoportrait en vert 16, 27, 49, 68, 70, 142, 146, 154–160, 170, 205–207

Comédie classique 11, 33, 35, 42–47, 50, 151–152, 177, 216n5

Diablesse et son enfant, La 118, 146, 161–162, 208

En famille 5, 9, 13, 20–22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 44, 48, 49, 55–62, 69, 71, 74, 80, 86, 137, 142, 151, 175, 178–181

Femme changée en bûche, La 7, 22, 28, 33, 35, 47–55, 63, 71, 135, 142, 144, 177–178

‘Garçons, Les’ 146, 150–152, 202–203

Grandes Personnes, Les 86, 109, 112, 113, 137–141, 143, 164, 199–200

Hilda 109, 114–118, 134, 141, 143, 195–196, 219n2

‘Jour du Président, Le’ 145, 201

Ladivine 9, 21–22, 30, 69, 72, 74, 100, 171–174, 192–195, 215n22

Mon cœur à l’étroit 9, 15–16, 28, 44, 59, 63, 71, 80, 92–99, 120, 128, 137, 143, 153, 164, 170, 186–189, 213n8

‘Mon quatrième roman’ 7

‘Mort de Claude François, La’ 146, 148–150, 202

Naufragée, La 48, 145, 204–205

Papa doit manger 1, 3, 12, 27, 30, 33, 43, 69, 70, 109, 113, 118, 122–128, 131, 143, 144, 197–198, 219n2

Paradis de Prunelle, Les 146, 162–164, 208–209, 210n2

Providence 27, 118–122, 131, 143, 196–197

Quant au riche avenir 9, 30, 32, 33–34, 36–42, 49, 102, 152–153, 176–177

‘Révélation’ 146, 153–154, 203

Rien d’humain 27, 120, 133–136, 137, 143, 144, 199, 219n2

Rosie Carpe 1, 17, 24, 25–26, 27, 30, 33, 48, 49, 69, 70, 71, 81–92, 137, 142, 183–186

Serpents, Les 111, 112, 113, 120, 128–133, 198

‘Sœurs, Les’ 8, 9, 19–21, 169–170, 203–204, 213n4

Sorcière, La 7, 17, 43, 59, 70, 71, 74, 75–81, 142, 144, 182–183

Souhait, Le 146, 164–167, 205

‘Tous mes amis’ 146–148, 201

Tous mes amis 145, 146–154

Trois femmes puissantes 11, 12, 16, 27, 30, 33, 49, 69, 71, 72, 74, (p.244) 99–108, 137, 143, 189–191

Un temps de saison 17, 24, 35, 62–68, 71, 86, 150, 181–182

‘Un voyage’ 200–201, 220n13

‘Une journée de Brulard’ 146, 152–153, 203

White Material 70, 137, 220n17

Y penser sans cesse 128, 143, 207–208

Ndiaye, Pap 6, 8, 210n5, 211n8

Nero 220n11

Nerval, Gérard de 155

Nimier, Marie 210n4

Noah, Yannick 13

nourishment see feeding

Oates, Joyce Carol

Blonde 214n10

ogres 97, 107, 113, 128, 131

Orpheus 47

Othello 123, 219n1

Ouagadougou 160

Papon, Maurice 97

paranoia 29

Parent, Anne Martine 100, 216n8

parenting 138–141, 145, 157–160, 164–167

see also fathers; mothering

passing 19, 217n24

passivity 60, 63–64, 76–77, 92

perfection 30, 34, 151–152

perversion 15

Perton, Christophe 113

photography 31, 160, 221n6

phantoms see transgenerational toxicity

Pithiviers 6, 221n1

Pivot, Bernard 42–43

Poe, Edgar Allan 1, 93

Polanski, Roman

Rosemary’s Baby 74, 217n21

pornography 67, 86–88

post-blackness 213n2

postmodernism 6, 35, 48, 70, 212n18

prizes

Grand Prix du Théâtre 12, 110

Man Booker International 12, 100

Prix Femina 11, 33, 69

Prix Goncourt 11, 33, 69, 100, 109

prostitution 61, 64–65, 102, 120–121, 150–152

Proust, Marcel 7, 33–34, 38, 210n7, 212n18

psychotherapy 14–18, 119–120, 141, 164, 170, 211n12, 220n20, 222n2

psychosis 28–29, 50–51, 61–62, 114, 126, 127, 152–153, 155, 172–173

Rabaté, Dominique 70, 110, 215n27

racialization 6, 7, 12–13, 18–23, 29, 32, 36, 55–57, 80–81, 94–96, 119, 123–125, 127–128, 157, 161–162

Racine, Jean

Bérénice 169

Iphigénie 220n11

Phèdre 125

racism 8, 12–13, 20–22, 29, 56, 94–96, 108, 148

Radiguet, Raymond 32

Raoult, Eric 12–13, 69

rape 26, 53, 57, 87, 118, 136, 141

Redonnet, Marie 210n4

republicanism 8, 9, 73–74, 100

Resnais, Alain 118, 210n3, 216n2

revolutionary violence 30, 108, 134–136

Rice, Ben

Pobby and Dingan 162

Richard, Jean-Pierre 213n1

Rimbaud, Arthur 32

Riva, Emmanuelle 216n2

Rivette, Jacques 220n11

Robbe-Grillet, Alain 9

Romero, George A.

Night of the Living Dead 90, 217n21

Season of the Witch 212n20

Ross, Ciaran 210n3

Roth, Philip 218n24

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 7, 210n7

Roussillon, Jean-Paul 218n1

Royal, Ségolène 12–13

Ruhe, Cornelia 212n14, 221n8

(p.245) Sade, Marquis de 57, 97, 136

sadism 9, 57–58

Sangaré, Bakary 123

Sarkozy, Nicolas 12

Sartre, Jean-Paul 212n14

schizoid phenomena see dissociation

Segal, Hanna 73

Segal, Naomi 218n26

Sekoff, Jed 4

Seligman, Eva 212n19

Senegal 7, 13, 49, 107

Sévigné, Mme de 11

shamanism 91, 132, 141, 164

shame 18–23, 62, 118, 212n14, 219n9

Sheringham, Michael 56, 216n6, 217n20

sibling relationships 19–21, 162–164

slavery 94, 115, 118, 219n4

soul death 37, 55, 63

spectrality 5, 12, 23–27, 65–68, 112, 116–117, 129, 133, 141, 159–160

splitting 4, 8–9, 13, 15, 29, 35, 37, 44, 48, 50–51, 57–58, 84–85

stigma 18–23, 29, 36, 43, 48, 52–53, 75, 93–97, 143, 153–154, 161–162

symbolization 72–73, 136

Suhrawardi 222n2

suicide 34, 44, 49, 62–63, 85, 167, 220n14

Suleiman, Susan Rubin 15

syntax 3, 9, 33, 50, 71, 82–83

Tavistock Clinic 221n2

teaching profession 62, 89, 111, 112, 138, 147, 217n20

Teko-Agbo, Ambroise K. 56

theatre 30, 109–141

Thomas, Dominic 100, 211n11

Thuram, Lilian, 13

Torok, Maria 26–27, 140

Tourneur, Jacques

Cat People 214n9

transgenerational toxicity 23–28, 30, 62, 71–72, 131–132, 140, 212n18

transitional objects 174

trauma 1, 16, 23–27, 29, 52–53, 66, 85–86, 114, 118–121, 132, 136, 138, 149, 160, 161–162, 216n10

Turner, J. M. W. 145, 221n3

uncanny, the 29–30, 173

vampirism 3, 111

Vieux-Chauvet, Marie 99, 218n26

Villa Medicis 10

Waters, John 48

whiteness 8, 61, 82, 125, 127–128, 165

Winnicott, Donald 14, 34–35, 40, 50–51, 156, 170–171, 212n16, 213n7

false self 17, 55, 121, 125, 152

true self 102–103

Winterson, Jeanette 168

Woolf, Virginia 122

zombification 45, 58–59, 66–67, 82–86, 89–91, 107–108, 116–117, 127, 148, 162–164, 166–167, 210n1

Zulawski, Andrzej

Possession 135–136

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