A perplexing manuscript by Antonin Artaud on the vitalities of the human body.

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)

Autograph manuscript.

One and a half pages in quarto on graph paper.

Sheet of paper perforated by the burn of his cigarette.

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"Virility is disrupted: the patient either gets too much or no erection at all. This occurs in cycles."

A perplexing – incomplete – manuscript by Artaud on the activity of the vital functions of the human body.

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"the impossible encounter of nature and spirit, a kind of truth within where the cross torments things are arranged by the human organism and the stitching is no longer done, because the pen of the Holy Spirit which ??? suddenly plays … of the extent.

The body is there, but as if emptied of itself, and the organs—liver, heart, lungs, intestines, kidneys—function imperturbably. Breathing, in its imaginary, cerebral form, is barely hindered at times. A little harsh, lacking in breadth, incomplete. [?] It springs forth, a little heavy, a little clear, too white or too heavy. One might think it's being affected, but analysis finds it healthy. Virility is disordered: the patient gets too much or no erection at all. All this comes in waves. […] Sometimes the patient is an angel, a priest, a pitiful sacristan. […]

The life force no longer diversifies, no longer branches out, and subsists, keeping the lower organs functioning. […] Everything is pitied, nothing is lacking, and yet the self is no longer there… »