@article{ART002177525},
author={PARK,HYUNG-SUB},
title={A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2016},
volume={45},
pages={219-243},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219}
TY - JOUR
AU - PARK,HYUNG-SUB
TI - A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2016
VL - 45
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 219
EP - 243
SN - 1598-0685
AB - The life of Antonin Artaud exactly reproduces a very cruel drama. He lived in constant anguish and suffered from severe mental pain. This research will trace his thoughts in his writings while he was a prisoner of language. Artaud was a poet filled with anxiety about language, things, being, and thought. Whenever he tried to explain the mystery of being by means of mundane language, he experienced psychological agony. His poetic thoughts began to break down, because of his identity loss. Nevertheless, he was destined to grasp the world through language.
Artaud had suffered from mental illness during his youth. His mental illness was associated with his difficulty in creating poetry. In this research, the letter, Correspondance avec Jacques Rivière, is analyzed. The poet refers to “the collapse of the spirit’s core, and the erosion of the fundamental thought that slips away” to convey his linguistic incompetence. Hereafter, he constantly demonstrated anxious mental symptoms. Even though he became mentally deranged, he maintained his consciousness, as is apparent in his writings. Also, his spiritual belief is reflected in his mental uneasiness. While he was traveling through the Tarahumaras area in Mexico, he was obsessed with its primitive belief in the Peyote rituals, and he immersed himself in performing them. His unchristian belief was the product of his mystical personality. Until his last breath, he did not give up writing.
Artaud’s mental derangement does not mean lunacy, but if one insists in calling it so, that is a metaphor. His derangement comes from his refusal to accept his limitations and from his aspiring to regard his body in the same light as his intellectual perceptions. His intellect could manifest more easily when his mind was elevated to the extreme. Artaud’s lunacy is no different from that of a profound philosopher. The lives of poets who suffer from mental derangement are more poetic than the lives of those who do not. Artaud’s atypical emotions provide a way of to measure our own limitations, helplessness, and resignation.
His scream is nonsegmental but different from that of a mental patient. That difference is why people are interested in his works and wish to delve into his writings.
KW - language;Antonin Artaud;mental illness;writing;existence;poetics
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
ER -
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. (2016). A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language. Cross-Cultural Studies, 45, 219-243.
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. 2016, "A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.45, pp.219-243. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB "A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language" Cross-Cultural Studies 45 pp.219-243 (2016) : 219.
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language. 2016; 45 219-243. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. "A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language" Cross-Cultural Studies 45(2016) : 219-243.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language. Cross-Cultural Studies, 45, 219-243. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2016; 45 219-243. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language. 2016; 45 219-243. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
PARK,HYUNG-SUB. "A. Artaud or the Prisoner of Language" Cross-Cultural Studies 45(2016) : 219-243.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..219
