Essai

Exploration littéraire de la stigmatisation envers les troubles de santé mentale

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Noémie La Haye-Caty

Prejudiced words about mental illness are often heard in advertisements, movies or magazines. Terms like “madness”, “crazy”, “screwed-up” are unfortunately used. Despite significant progress in recent years, mental health disorders are still stigmatized. The collective imagination surrounding mental health issues is perpetuated and transmitted, in part, through the lexical field that is associated to it. Literature holds a particular place in social discourse, referring both to the artistic world and particular realities. What semantic paths does stigmatization takes in literature ? In the context of this research, autofictional literary works...