Henry Brulard, Stendhal’s own Christian name Henri (Henri Beyle) and that of his
mother Henriette who died in childbirth when he was 7, and the ‘couple imaginaire
Henri-Henriette’. One might ask whether the positioning of the name Henri was of
importance to Constant, and why.
- See for example, Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 33, note 2.
- Letter from Catherine de Charrière de Sévery to Angletine-Charlotte de Chandieu of
20–1 November 1767, quoted in Appendice I to Constant, Correspondance I (1774–
1792).
- See in particular Michael Rutter, Maternal Deprivation Reassessed,
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Psychology), second edition
1981, and John Bowlby’s trilogy Attachment and Loss, consisting of vol. I,
Attachment, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, second edition 1982, vol. II,
Separation: Anxiety and Anger, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975, and vol. III,
Loss: Sadness and Depression, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981. Bowlby’s A
Secure Base: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory, London: Tavistock/
Routledge, 1988, was the final summary of his views before his death in 1990.
- Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 33.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions, ed. Jacques Voisine, Paris: Garnier Frères
(Classiques Garnier), 1964, pp. 6–7. See Pierre-Paul Clément’s Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. De l’éros coupable à l’éros glorieux, Neuchâtel: A la Baconnière
(Langages), 1976, for a psychoanalytical study of Rousseau which in places suggests
interesting parallels with Constant.
- John Bowlby, Charles Darwin. A Biography, London: Hutchinson, 1990, p. 77. (The
title given on its cover, as opposed to on the title page, is Charles Darwin. A New
Biography). Whether Constant’s problems produced any somatic symptoms is an
interesting question that has to the best of my knowledge never been raised by other
biographers of Constant: one thinks immediately, for example, of the recurrent eye
troubles which plagued him all his life and which often seem to have coincided with
an emotional crisis. It is a subject worthy of further investigation.
- See Rudler, Jeunesse, pp. 38–45.
- John Bowlby, Attachment and Loss, vol. III, Loss: Sadness and Depression,
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981, pp. 288–9.
- Dominique Verrey, Chronologie de la vie et de l’œuvre de Benjamin Constant. Avec
la collaboration du professeur Etienne Hofmann. Tome I: 1767–1805, Geneva:
Editions Slatkine, 1992.
- Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, p. 3.
- Constant, Œuvres, p. 1455.
- Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 33.
- Henri Troyat, Tolstoy,Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (Pelican Biographies), 1967,
p. 26.
- Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, p. 72. It seems likely that Constant had one or several
tutors before Ströhlin, but Ströhlin is the first he professes to remember.
- [Michel de] Montaigne, Œuvres complètes, ed. Albert Thibaudet et Maurice Rat,
Paris: Gallimard (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), 1962, [Essais], I, XXVI, pp. 174.
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