Jekyll et Hyde Quel modèle de multiplicité des soi ?

This article offers an interpretation of the novella by Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, borrowing its method from what George Ainslie has called “pico-economics”: the study of interactions within the same individual, between his successive “selves”. This reading, based on the hypothesis of Jekyll’s instrumentalisation of his future “self”, opposes the common reading which insists on the little-controlled, and ultimately uncontrollable, splitting of the personality.