Animaux de désir, animaux de malheur

In this third-person retrospective account, Claude Louis-Combet links the sadism of the child towards the animal with an anguished and contradictory interrogation on generation: the sexual power of the animal calls for an identification but also a punishment, which stems from the moral and religious censure the child imposes on him or herself. From the living animal, observed in childhood in its sexual plenitude, emerges the writing animal, intimately linked to eroticism, suffering, and the infinite quest for origins.