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Remember childhood? Forget it
The argument is that psychoanalysis and comics, which both came into being at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, share a fascination with the infantile body as a polymorphously perverse, « unmapped » body. Starting from a short comic strip by Art Spiegelman entitled No Kidding Kids… Remember Childhood? Well Forget it, and employing Jean Laplanche's concept of the « enigmatic signifier », the author studies graphic novels by Charles Burnes, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware who explore the links between infantility and the comic book genre.