Benjamin Constant
From time to time during these early months he would suddenly find himself in the midst of a constellation of grandmothers and a ...
offers us a case for comparison, as we can see in this well-known passage from the Confessions (1782): I was born weak and sickl ...
whenever some adverse event or threat of it penetrates to that secret cupboard, with or without his realising it, he becomes anx ...
‘Open discussion’: the contrast with Rousseau and his father is instructive. That passage of the Confessions about a bereaved hu ...
I was born on 25 October 1767 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Henriette de Chandieu, who was from a formerly French family ...
hard to visualize the frustration and the confused emotions of a man who cannot remember his own mother—Tolstoy, who lost his mo ...
And one hardly needs to be a Lacanian to see that its narrative is a search for himself, for wholeness, an attempt to locate him ...
behaviour, what he himself gives or does not give as the reason for his complicity with Ströhlin may be far from the real reason ...
moments guilty and innocent, masterful and dependent. Evil comes out of the apparently good, good comes out of apparent evil. It ...
gripped and chilled by what happened whenever one reflects on it. Caught in the act and brought before the court, she made no at ...
expression in Dickens’s recollection of the time he was set to work in Warren’s Blacking Factory: No words can express the secre ...
The effect of Henriette’s death can only have been to exacerbate all these tendencies in Juste de Constant. He was never able to ...
character of a vendetta on his part. Ian Suttie throws light on the possible development of both Juste and Benjamin Constant: Th ...
when you see him? What if, left only with a nurse, you begin to brood on your mother’s death, come to the conclusion that it was ...
connection with a challenge to a duel with François du Plessis-Gouret about which he seemed unconcerned at the time, Constant wr ...
very stuff of a great artist, what Keats, speaking of Shakespeare, famously called ‘Negative Capability, that is, when a man is ...
vulnerability to another loss or the threat of a loss which will produce a feeling of unrelieved hopelessness; aggression, tru ...
the age of 5 (and later his stepmother), Marianne Magnin. If Constant came to feel guilty about his mother’s death because of hi ...
to one’s last breath;^43 that people ought, even in extremis, to live out their political convictions. And yet it is hard to res ...
her family, virtually kidnapping her; that he had given her a good education—this included the usual accomplishments plus an und ...
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