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Le vampire en littérature et au cinéma

entre humanité et monstruosité

by Marine Peulson & Pascal Vacher

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: French

Le vampire est une créature devenue de plus en plus célèbre ces dernières années. Monstre millénaire, il prend ses sources dans l'histoire et les croyances populaires. Être mythique inspiré de personnages historiques, il est un terrain fertile pour la littérature et le cinéma. Il soulève des questions à la fois littéraires, sociologiques, psychanalytiques, physiologiques et historiques. Ce mémoire tente de répondre à la question suivante : dans quelles mesures la figure complexe du vampire, être de l'entre-deux monde situé à mi-chemin entre l'humanité et la monstruosité, a opéré, notamment grâce au cinéma, une métamorphose aboutissant à la déconstruction du mythe ? Transposition des fantasmes et des peurs inavoués des auteurs et des lecteurs, il est pétrit de vices et se construit en opposition à la société. Il permet au lecteur et au spectateur de s'évader de la pression sociale qui le contraint physiquement et moralement. Intimement lié à la religion, il est la personnification du mal. Or, le vampire n'est pas totalement un monstre comme nous pourrions le penser. Il est le reflet de la psyché de l'auteur et plus généralement de celle des lecteurs. Être duel tenant à la fois de l'humanité et de la nature, le vampire serait la manifestation de notre inconscient et de plusieurs théories développées par Freud. La déconstruction des topoï vampiriques, l'explication du passé du vampire et certaines de ses réactions tendent à l'humaniser. Le vampire, dont le but n'est plus d'effrayer mais de plaire, acquiert une dimension plus humaine. The vampire is a creature become more and more popular these last years. Thousand-year-old monster, he rises the history and the popular beliefs. Mythical creature inspired by great names of history, he is a fertile ground for the literature and the cinema. He raises questions at the same time literary, sociological, psychoanalytical, physiological and historic. This report tries to answer at the following question: in what measures the complex figure of the vampire, to be of the intervening period world situated halfway between the humanity and the monstrousness, operated, in particular thanks to the cinema, a metamorphosis ending in the demolition of the myth? Transposition of the unconfessed fantasies and the fears of the authors and the readers, he is kneaded defects and builds itself in opposition to the society. He allows the reader to escape from the social pressure which forces him physically and morally. Confidentially bound to the religion, it is the personification of the evil. Yet, the vampire is not totally the monster as we could think of it. It is the reflection of the psyche of the author and more generally that of the readers. To be dual holding at the same time of the humanity and the nature, the vampire would be the demonstration of our unconscious and several theories developed by Freud. The demolition of vampirics topoï, the explanation of the past of the vampire and some of its reactions aim for humanize him. The vampire, the purpose of which is not any more to frighten but to please, acquires a more human dimension.

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    • vampires· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
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1 vol. (100 f.); 2015; 30 cm; Bibliographie et filmographie f. 89-99. Notes bibliographiques en bas de page; ill.; Lettres modernes

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