Approche psychanalytique du « démoniaque » à  partir de l'œuvre de Ian McEwan

This study examines a few epistemological reflections establishing the interest that literature and psychoanalysis can have for each other. It then attempts, through a structural analysis of the works of the contemporary English novelist Ian McEwan, to elucidate a point of theory: the use of the term “demonic” by Freud to qualify the death instinct. This leads us to raise anew the question of evil in relation to the forms taken by the rejection of castration as existential trauma. The emphasis is laid in particular on the perverse montage.