David Herbert Lawrence et Georges Bataille, l'érotisme et le sacré
The thesis demonstrates that David Herbert Lawrence and Georges Bataille shared the same philosophical heritage. They drew inspiration from the theories of German Romanticism and Nietzsche. Therefore, they searched for the sacred in the life of the body and in a Dionysic ecstatic experience. They wanted collective turmoil without immanentism, a revolution which wouldn’t be jeopardised by the rise of a fascist dictator. However, their political attempts did not succeed. They realised then that sacredness was only to be reached through literary creation. Both writers thought that erotic ecstasis could lead to a sacred experience. Erotic jouissance amounts to a “little death” in which the ego is lost while the individual’s limits disappear. Yet, the two writers most differentiate themselves with regard to the literary devices they use in order to depict such an experience.