Necrophilia, Social phenomenon in two different societies, through Gabrielle Wittkop in The Necrophilic (1972) and Cherine Hanaii in Necrophilia (2011) (interdisciplinary study)

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French Language Department, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

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Having been judged as a form of symbolic disrespect, and having been condemned by all human societies, necrophilia may be accepted in very rare cases.
In this current study, our objective is to show how literature can shed light on this strange phenomenon and how the two authors have described in a realistic way the universe of the necrophile, related many details on his methods, his sensations, in a curious mixture of contradictory feelings. The study also highlights to what extent do these two narratives provide us with a material so dense, corresponding to our purpose, moving towards psychology based on a three-dimensional psychological relation: the language of the conscious ego, the unconscious, and its own modes of self-expression, and how the two societies face the unnamable.
We will also discuss the similarities and spatial-temporal differences between the realities received by the two female writers, in order to capture the metamorphoses of the character's victims of this phenomenon.

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