https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1350 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1353 The essay aims to highlight the representation of Jane Avril developed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the perspective of what could be defined as an aesthetics of hysteria. Of such a representation, consistent with the appearance of the many automatons that are about to invade the artistic scene of the first decades of the twentieth century, Jane Avril would definitely be said to be an accomplice, but in the construction of a character that does not have much to do with her dancing body. mar., 25 juin 2024 17:13:11 +0200 mar., 29 oct. 2024 09:48:32 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1353 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1348 Jane Avril, a former patient of the Salpêtrière, feigned the grand hysterical attack to escape the medicalizing grasp of psychiatry through a practice of dissimulation. This maneuver involves a tactic where the “fake” becomes a dodge, granting the nosographic gaze the idiocy of diagnostic gratification to deceive it at a deeper level. It is here that the mimetic and metamorphic art of Charcot’s patients becomes the dancing subversion of a power relationship, thanks to the hysterical metonymy’s ability to evade any clinical capture. The demand for hysterical dance, which Jane transposes from the “clinical theater” of the Salpêtrière to the stage of the Moulin Rouge, eroticizes the impossible, engaging with life and mocking the “master”. It is this “menadic” nature of hysterical desire that uncouples the erotic body from the normativity of biology. My contribution will seek to investigate, in reference to the conceptual figure of Jane Avril, not only within a genealogy of “transference neurosis” but also in the context of its differential framing compared to other clinical and psychoanalytic constellations, the subversive trait of hysteria and its decisive role in the economy of desire. mar., 25 juin 2024 16:40:50 +0200 mar., 29 oct. 2024 09:48:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1348