La solitude apprivoisée

by Jean-Michel Quinodoz

« La solitude a deux visages : elle peut être une mortelle conseillère mais, lorsqu’on l’apprivoise, elle peut devenir une amie extrêmement précieuse. Peut-on apprivoiser la solitude ? Peut-on parvenir à ce qu’elle devienne un authentique moyen de communication avec soi-même et avec autrui ? Dans ce livre, j’aimerais montrer comment l’expérience de la solitude peut être vécue et se transformer au cours de l’expérience psychanalytique et comment se développe le passage d’un sentiment parfois hostile et désespérant de solitude vers une solitude apprivoisée. »
Cet essai, publié en 1991 (coll. « Le fait psychanalytique »), a eu un large écho tant en France qu'à l'étranger. Cette édition « Quadrige » est augmentée d'une préface inédite de l'auteur dans laquelle il explique sa contribution à l'évolution de certains concepts psychanalytiques, tels ceux d'angoisse et de deuil, liés à la solitude.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

252 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Yasemin]

And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added:

"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."


The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
....
And he went back to meet the fox.

"Goodbye," he said.

"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . ."


"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.”

This is a book of intersection of lots of psychoanalytic theories about separation anxiety and very touching quotes from Little Prince. Journey from the separation anxiety to the buoyancy and the fruitfulness of solitude.