Confusing manuscript by Antonin Artaud on the vitalities of the human body.

Antonin ARTAUD (1896-1948)

Autograph manuscript.

A ½ in-4° page on squared paper.

Sheet perforated by cigarette burn.

Slnd.

“The virility is disordered: the patient is too hard or no longer hard. All this as in periods. »

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

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“the impossible meeting of nature and spirit, a kind of truth within where the cross torments things is put away by the human organism and the sewing is no longer done, because the pen of the Holy Spirit who?? ? suddenly plays...extent.

The body is there but as if emptied of itself and the organs: the liver, the heart, the lungs, the intestine, the kidneys work imperturbably. Breathing in its imagination, in its reflection through the brain, is hardly a little hampered at times. A little harsh, without depth, without completion. [?] comes out a little heavy a little clear, too white or too heavy. You would think that she is acting out, but the analysis finds her to be healthy. Virility is disordered: the patient is too hard or no longer hard. All this as in periods. […] Sometimes the sick person is an angel, a priest, a pitiful sacristan. […]

The life force no longer diversifies, no longer branches and subsists and operates the lower organs. […] Everything is complained about and nothing is missing and yet the self is no longer there…”