Patrick Née's Psychoanalytic Reading of Yves Bonnefoy's Poetry

Patrick Née's essay 'Zeuxis auto-analyste' (Éditions La Lettre Volée) explores the creative process of poet Yves Bonnefoy through a psychoanalytic lens. Née examines Bonnefoy's work from his surrealist beginnings to his final narrative 'Les Planches Courbes,' focusing on infrapsychic struggles and the subject's relationship with fundamental love objects. The analysis draws on influences from Jarry, Lely, and Bataille, as well as mythical appropriations like Zeuxis's birds contrasted with Jensen's Gravida. Née argues that Bonnefoy's poetry fights against gnostic temptation and conceptual thought, aiming to recreate 'Community' through a carnal relationship with language. The essay also references Guy Rosolato, who called Bonnefoy's Giacometti the most Freudian book he had read. Simultaneously published is Née's 'Yves Bonnefoy penseur de l'image ou les Travaux de Zeuxis' (Gallimard).