{"id":5190,"date":"2023-04-20T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/04\/20\/pere-daugust-strindberg-lenvers-du-patriarcat-jean-philippe-cornet\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:22:56","slug":"the-father-by-august-strindberg-the-other-side-of-patriarchy-jean-philippe-cornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/04\/20\/the-father-by-august-strindberg-the-other-side-of-patriarchy-jean-philippe-cornet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father<\/em> by August Strindberg, the other side of patriarchy \u2013 Jean-Philippe Cornet <\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2015, for his first steps in theater, Arnaud Desplechin directs The Father<\/em>[1]<\/a>, after a play of the same name by August Strindberg[2]<\/a>. Written in the late 19th century, this play denounces the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society of that time and reveals its cause.<\/p>\n

The Father <\/em>features a bourgeois couple, a captain and his wife, who is torn about their daughter\u2019s future. The captain wants her to go study in the city to become a schoolteacher, his wife is opposed to it, in order for her to become an artist.<\/p>\n

A. Strindberg portrays a captain who identifies fatherhood to its reproductive function and foresees the dramatic consequences. Facing one of his men accused of abusing a woman\u2019s weakness and getting her pregnant, he accepts the following ancient argument: mater semper certa est<\/em>, pater est semper incertus<\/em>. Chocked by this argument that leaves a mother and her child without a father, his wife denounces the injustice of the patriarchal society. If nothing and nobody can tell for certain who a child\u2019s father is, \u201chow can the father have all these rights over the child\u201d?[3]<\/a>, she protested.<\/p>\n

Confronted with a husband who does not want his inalienable rights being questioned, Laura turns her husband\u2019s logic against himself. Even though he thinks that \u201cin marriage, of course, paternity is not in doubt\u201d[4]<\/a>, she tells him that he doesn\u2019t know if he is Bertha\u2019s father. Being a fine logician, she adds: \u201chow can you know what other people don\u2019t!\u201d[5]<\/a>. Since that moment, she introduces doubt into her husband\u2019s mind whose mental universe turned into madness. Everybody lies to him and there is no longer any guarantee whether a word is misleading or not[6]<\/a>. It becomes impossible for him to follow the advice that his doctor reminds him \u2013\u00a0advice that he believes he holds from Goethe: \u201ca man must take his children on trust\u201d[7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The captain\u2019s being collapses. By telling him he may not be his daughter\u2019s father, \u201clong comes someone with a knife\u201d and \u201cmakes a cut\u201d[8]<\/a> of half of himself. For the captain, the meaning of life and the truth to which he adheres vanish. He sees no other choices but to die and kill his daughter. By questioning the notion of father<\/em>, A.\u00a0Strindberg reveals behind the figure of patriarchy, that of Saturn who devours his own children because he is told he will be devoured by them. Indeed, The Father<\/em> opens on the captain\u2019s fantasy to be in a cage, surrounded by women who, as wild beasts, dream of tearing him apart. It closes on an acting out driven by \u201ca morbid fancy\u201d[9]<\/a> of being an ogre who wants to devour his daughter. \u201cTo eat or be eaten!\u201d[10]<\/a>, that is the other side of patriarchy, according to A.\u00a0Strindberg.<\/p>\n

References from the autor.
\n[1]<\/a> Desplechin A., The Father<\/em>, 2015. https:\/\/www.comedie-francaise.fr\/en\/events\/pere15-16#<\/a>.
\n[2]<\/a> The Father <\/em>in Strindberg,\u00a0J.A.\u00a0Miss Julie and Other Plays.\u00a0Translated by M.\u00a0Robinson, Oxford University Press, 2008.<\/em>
\n[3]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a011.
\n[4]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>.
\n[5]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a039.
\n[6]<\/a> Lacan J., The seminar of Jacques Lacan,<\/em> Book\u00a0III, The Psychoses<\/em>, 1955-1956, translated by Russel Grigg.
\n[7]<\/a> Strindberg A., The Father, op. cit<\/em>., p.\u00a030.
\n[8]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a047.
\n[9]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a048.
\n[10]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Translation: Manuela Rabesahala
\nProofreading: Tracy Hoijer-Favre<\/p>\n

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