{"id":5445,"date":"2023-05-04T20:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/05\/04\/une-fiction-moderne-natacha-delaunay\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:35:51","slug":"a-modern-fiction-natacha-delaunay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/a-modern-fiction-natacha-delaunay\/","title":{"rendered":"A modern fiction \u2013 Natacha Delaunay<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\u2019est pas grave<\/em>[1]<\/a>, a short story of children\u2019s literature, published in 2022 (first published in 2010) begins with a little rabbit who spills his bowl of milk and bursts into tears. Daddy rabbit replies with a confident smile: \u201cIt\u2019s okay, it doesn\u2019t matter, it doesn\u2019t matter!\u201d (C\u2019est pas grave<\/em>); he wipes up the spilt milk and fills the glass again. A series of novel incidents follow in which Little Rabbit breaks his plate, knocks over an object and declares with the same confidence: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter!\u201d in front of Daddy Rabbit, who is surprised. Until he lights a lighter, sets the burrow on fire, and then says again, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter!\u201d. That\u2019s it! Daddy Rabbit kicks him out. Little rabbit discovers a strange burrow which is none other than the mouth of the wolf. He finds himself in the wolf\u2019s stomach with a little frog, swallowed along with his table and a candle. The candle falls, fire breaks out in the wolf\u2019s stomach, and he coughs up the animals. There, Little Rabbit falls, hurts himself and cries! He comes back to see his father in tears, who tells him: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter!\u201d. But this time, it\u2019s Little Rabbit who yells back at him: \u201cYes, it matters!\u201d<\/p>\n

Who hasn\u2019t heard a very young child take up the c\u2019est pas grave!<\/em> taken from the discourse of the family Other? This fiction is based on the zeitgeist<\/em> and reveals to us, in its own way, a dimension of the contemporary malaise that runs through it. The formula c\u2019est pas grave<\/em>! which punctuates the text, testifies in the first place to the desire of the figure who supports the father, to console the crying child. However, the phrase is quickly taken up by the latter in an excess of nonsense and provocations, from the cup broken accidentally (incidemment<\/em>) to the fire (incendie<\/em>) that was deliberately (volontairement<\/em>) set in the burrow. This fiction presents us with a father who takes care of his \u201cfamil\u201d[2]<\/a>, with \u201cexceedingly nice aspects\u201d[3]<\/a>, but failing to introduce a word that names and tempers the excesses of enjoyment. His \u201cGet out! Get out of here!\u201d does not introduce a single limit. We are far from this \u201cmystagogy that makes him into a tyrant\u201d[4]<\/a>, such as the one found in Freudian myths. But the lack of nomination introduces another form of ferocity which, in this story, translates into Little Rabbit\u2019s fall into the mouth of the wolf.<\/p>\n

In subverting the c\u2019est pas grave!<\/em> which embodies the contemporary ideology of benevolent education, the new figure of the contemporary superego, this fiction reveals its mortifying other side: the \u201cpush to jouissance\u201d that the little rabbit caught in transgressive metonymy illustrates very well.<\/p>\n

The father who consoles, who repairs, replaces, wipes away tears, is not the father who names…<\/p>\n

Moreover, doesn\u2019t the fire that breaks out twice in the wolf\u2019s den and stomach put us on the path of a \u201cfather don\u2019t you see\u2026?\u201d[5]<\/a> \u201c…that it matters (c\u2019est pas<\/em> grave<\/em>)\u201d. For perhaps it must matter, at a point, so that it may not matter?<\/p>\n

Introducing these burning questions without seriousness (gravit\u00e9<\/em>), but not without consequences, is the role of children\u2019s literature, far from the tight grip of contemporary ideology on exasperated parents[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References from the author\u00a0:
\n[1]<\/a> Van Zeveren M., C\u2019est pas grave<\/em>, Paris, \u00c9cole des loisirs, 2022.
\n[2]<\/a> Lacan J., Seminar XVII The Other side of Psychoanalysis<\/em>, London, Norton, 2007, p.\u00a0100.
\n[3]<\/a> Ibid., p.\u00a0127.
\n[4]<\/a> Ibid.
\n[5]<\/a> Cf. Freud S., The Interpretation of the Dreams, Standard Edition\u00a0V<\/em>, p.\u00a0509.
\n[6]<\/a> Cf. Parents exasp\u00e9r\u00e9s\u00a0\u2013\u00a0enfants terribles<\/em>, title of the seventh day of the Institut de l\u2019enfant held in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 18\u00a0March\u00a02023.<\/p>\n

Translation: Robyn Adler
\nProofreading: Marina Caiaffa Bardi<\/p>\n

Picture : \u00a9 Val\u00e9rie Locatelli<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C\u2019est pas grave[1], a short story of children\u2019s literature, published in 2022 (first published in 2010) begins with a little rabbit who spills his bowl of milk and bursts into tears. 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