Abstract
The narrator of Ève s’évade - la Ruine et la Vie, 2009, by Hélène Cixous, is facing aging and the last moments of her mother Ève’s life. In the first pages, we hear the voices of Dante, Montaigne, Ève and we reach the voice of the dream that soon leads us to the journey in which Freud, fleeing from Nazism, goes to London to “die in freedom”. In this short essay, we will have a close look at the modes of citation, encryption and decoding of Proust’s scenes, in the center of the stage, and Freud’s scenes around the stage, through Cixous’ writing. We will seek to show how these scenes, read and reread, transform themselves into what we loosely call suitcase words - omifiée/Omification, bergotter, rêvasion - and fulfill the wish of transforming death into literature, a wish that comes true through the liberating transformation of the word that, between literary and psychoanalytical scenes, conjugates other times, modes, voices.
Keywords:
Hélène Cixous; Marcel Proust; Sigmund Freud; literature and psychoanalysis