103. Antes, si no mal recuerdo, mi vida era un festin: Arthur Rimbaud visto por Alice Miller (Serie Estudio del trauma)

3 Mar 2023 · 9 min
Podcast "On ne devient pas psy par hasard".

3 Mar 2023 · 9 min

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In this Spanish‑language episode of the Just in Time podcast, the host narrates a psycho‑historical reading of the poet Arthur Rimbaud through the lens of Alice Miller’s book El cuerpo nunca miente. The episode begins with a vivid recollection of Rimbaud’s early brilliance and quickly moves to his physical decline in Africa: a painful illness, a grueling two‑week trek across the desert, and the eventual amputation of his leg in the Hospital de la Concepción in Marseille, where he dies five months later. The host then details Rimbaud’s family background, focusing on his mother Vitalie Cuif, a widowed, authoritarian figure who raised five children alone after her husband abandoned the household. Drawing on Yves Bonnefoy’s biography and Miller’s analysis, the narrative explains how Vitalie’s obsessive control and conflation of love with appearance created a hostile emotional environment that fostered Rimbaud’s self‑hatred. Miller argues that this internalized hatred drove Rimbaud to seek escape through alcohol, opium, distant travels, and intense poetic creation. The episode further explores Rimbaud’s adult relationships—his turbulent friendship with Paul Verlaine, his ambiguous sexuality, and his attempts at Christian charity—as repeated reenactments of his maternal conflict. In his final years, Rimbaud returns to his family, abandons poetry, and becomes a merchant, seemingly surrendering to his mother’s expectations before dying in Marseille. The host closes by situating the discussion within the broader mission of the Just in Time podcast: an open‑ended platform for interdisciplinary dialogue, now also welcoming astrology, and inviting guests to contribute to conversations about literature, psychoanalysis, and social topics.

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