Quelques figures littéraires de la migraine

I discovered that migraine, subsequent to literary creation, was presented in a rich and precise manner by the authors studied, who were all migraine sufferers, such as G. Sand, G. de Maupassant, T. Ben Jelloun, P. M. Moller, Boulgakov and P. Fleutiaux. Their description, which is particularly evocative of the context in which the crisis occurs, often suggests the unforeseen irruption of an environmental factor that temporarily disorganizes psychic life, because it threatens the primary narcissism of the subject, where the subject is part of the environment and the environment part of the subject. This sometimes results in the occurrence of intense anxiety. The psychic mechanism of repression, which separates affect and representation sometimes precedes the crisis. The migraine, transformed and elaborated by the act of literary creation, helps to overcome the narcissistic wound that has been inflicted. The result is a restoration of the transitional space of play and symbolization momentarily destroyed, enabling the author to communicate, through writing, with an interior and exterior object (the reader) his emotional experience of the crisis, which had not previously been translated into verbal language.