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Les figures du trauma chez Simone de Beauvoir

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The work of de Beauvoir expresses the trauma of being unable to reach the Absolute by an introverted individual, breaking with the image of the writer as an eternal optimist, whose life was filled with pleasures and journeys. Considering her individualism, this article will take an interdisciplinary view at the contrast between the desire for existence and its absence, the search for identity and the dialectic of existentialism. Selected autobiographical works and essays will illustrate how the trauma in the discourse of the writer manifests itself through fear, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or suffering, expressing loss of faith, despair, internal crisis, and obsession with death, which are inherent in the human condition. The vision of the author, far removed from melancholy, presents a specific notion of reality and human identity and stresses moral ambiguity, which turns life adversities into an advantage and a tool in the fight for a better tomorrow.