Une Faute Sans Nom ☆

Abstract: Lasthénie de Ferjol, heroine of the tale Une Histoire sans Nom written by Barbey d''Aurevilly, a young lady leading herself to death by self provoked hemorraghes, appears to be a paradigm of family problematic passed from one generation on to the next one through actings. We study here the link between self bleeding and severe anorexia nervosa, which is described in several case reports, noticing that both of these two symptoms are quite specific from the women. We can understand through this tale how a mother tangled up in a great driving violence and the destructivness coming with the fight against melancolic collapse can pass this violence on to her daughter in an underword way. Then the young girl repeats a story which is not hers, trying to get out of this destiny with actings: we see here how an unhealthy behaviour can be salutary, because of the differenciation it carries out. After all, Lasthénie de Ferjol syndrom seems to be very close to anorexia nervosa, the blood of provoked hemorraghes refering to the undernutrition provoked amenorrheae. The central problematic of these teenage girls'' deseases would be the stakes and the risks of reaching womanhood, that is to say the acception of the passive position, which refers to the infans- mother relationship. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]