Open AccessIon Vianu’s Autobiographical Account.
Author(s) -
Mădălina Popa Catrinel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mnemosyne o la costruzione del senso
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2031-8502
DOI - 10.14428/mnemosyne.v0i6.13733
Subject(s) - romanian , politics , communism , identity (music) , rhetorical question , psychoanalysis , psychology , history , sociology , literature , political science , philosophy , law , art , aesthetics , linguistics
Ion Vianu (b.1934, Bucarest), Romanian psychiatrist and writer, son of a famous professor of comparative literature (Tudor Vianu), becomes recognized also for his positions against the communist authorities’ attempt of using psychiatry as a political weapon. In 1977 he chooses the path of exile, continuing his psychiatric research and practice in the Western world (Switzerland). Starting from the assumption that our scholar represents a paradigmatic example of what may be called an “in-between” identity, this paper intends to analyse the image(s) that the narrator gives of himself through a discourse which continuously tries to harmonize memory and forgetfulness, testimony and evidence, authenticity and rhetorical devices.