Cioran et l’insomnie comme trans/défiguration du moi

Cioran attributes to insomnia the origin of all his thought. It produces in him a paroxysm of consciousness, which Cioran calls lucidity The purpose is to cast some light on the complementarity between the idea of transfiguration and that of disfigurement (unmentioned) in the experience of insomnia that shapes Cioran’s thought.