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The works of Ernaux provide typical examples of contemporary autobiography in which even if the ‘I’ of the author, the narrator, and the main character make them one and only but it is transpersonal ‘I’ that covers several identities. Indeed, through the story of the life of the father and the mother, and from the famous formula "I is another", Annie Ernaux gives herself to an attempt to denounce the unacceptable and to express the unexpressed, hence, the denial of origins. Inculturation, indigenization, and conversion are therefore the watchwords of Ernaux’s writing. In order to escape a direct expression of "Self", the author describes, in minute detail, the itinerary of his parents’ life, and the evolution that this abused existence had undergone over time, by which, she manages, through white writing, to define the position of the "Self" and the metamorphosis of the ‘I’. The present study focuses on the strategies employed by the author to consolidate, or weaken, the relationship between oneself and others, to come to a difference in the systematization of self-expression. To do this, it is desirable to suggest that the chosen style, the titles of the works, the intertextual network in which they are anchored, the author's statements, her background, and her objectives, are all important elements to grasp the depth and complexity of the relationship between ‘I’ and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]