Artaud: the question of the name between psychosis and poetry

Abstract

In this article, we consider Artaud's writing as a singular literary creation; we compared traditional literary and psychotic writing, which was named outsider writing in the artistic field. We saw that, for Artaud, he imported more the making of the text, the creation itself of his poetry, the "glossopoetry", as a signature of his style, than the proper name. Anyway, until he got to his father's name, he signed with his mother, an imaginary name, and even his absence. Thus, despite the suffering of psychosis, he sought a means of over-existing. He transformed the conventional syntax and semantics of the mother language with glossolalias and a discourse that reaches the threshold of meaning, and even nonsense. He overcame psychosis and made himself legitimized as a subject in process.