Psyché et zoomorphisme dans le journal d’internement (1942-1943) de Georges Horan-Koiransky

Georges Horan-Koiransky, in Journal d’un interné. Drancy 1942-1943, makes a recur-rent use of images of real and fantastical animals to evoke his imprisonment. Two parallel and complementary perspectives, psychoanalysis and mythocriticism, shall provide the means for re-vealing and analysing the issues at stake. Psychoanalysis will enable us to establish a link between the use of figurative language and the post-traumatic stress disorders resulting from Georges’ imprisonment in the Police aux Questions Juives (PQJ) and the transit camps. Once we have examined the psyche of the diarist, a mitocritical approach based on Gilbert Durand’s suggestions on the imagination will enable us to reveal the presence of zoomorphic images in his apprehen-sion and interpretation of the universe within the walls of the places of imprisonment.