P.-L Assoun and the irony inherent in the unconscious. A

Abstract

polysemic and polymorphic figure, of expressive scope, irony is the subject of successive analyses of multiple study areas, which contrasts with the amount of psychoanalytical studies dedicated to it. This work seeks to circumscribe and discuss the idea of an irony inherent to the unconscious proposed by Assoun and to show that thematic and critical comments of elementary texts can provide subsidies to the approach of irony by psychoanalysis, even if they have a retrospective and comparative bias.