Marie Cardinal's writings since 1962 articulate the major intellectual concerns of contemporary France: psychoanalysis and language; the politics of decolonization; questions of female creativity and the sociocultural construction of gender. But her...

IN AN interview with Elle magazine in April 1998, the novelist and feminist Marie Cardinal said: I wasn't born until I was psychoanalysed. Before that, I was never truly alive. I was just a bourgeois young woman who wanted to have children, so...

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC of Lyons is often considered to be the most important in France, not only because of its size (it covers a population of 1,725,000), but more particularly because it was founded as early as AD 150. The holder of the Lyons bishopric...

In the following essay, Martin explores the mental instabilities of the protagonists in Les Mots pour le dire and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, noting the similarities between the two women's mental states and the extreme pressures that influenced their illness.

In the following essay, Lane utilizes the feminist and psychoanalytical theories of Julia Kristeva and Jessica Benjamin to analyze how both Cardinal and Marguerite Duras depict mother-daughter relationships.

In the following essay, Jauregui evaluates Cardinal's “narrative treatment of a Parisian psychologist” in Les Grands Désordres, arguing that fiction can reveal human truths that often “elude the grasp” of psychology.