Sublimation and black melancholy: the creation of Yves Saint-Laurent by Jodeau-Belle, Laetitia

“…Our hypothesis, in fact, is that the sublimatory montage, as stated from childhood by the artist of «machinery», enabled him to supplement the forclusion of symbolic and to counteract, to some extent, the urge of death. He was thus able to call himself «the creator of all women», which is the appointment of an exceptional position. …”
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