ABSTRACT
What is more interesting is that it is the very schematic nature of this metaphor that is found to be inadequate in the light of Andre Gide's case. A metamorphosis of desiring did occur for the subject, however, following his father's death, described in two scenes to which Gide gave the value of awakenings: "It was the total and abrupt revelation of an unsuspected world to which author eyes were suddenly opened, like the eyes of the blind man after the Saviour had touched them. The object was fixed during the scene with his aunt. It is that of the "excruciating delights" felt by Gide during his honeymoon with Madeleine, when he touched the arms of young boys on the train. Gide's relation to the phallus, which was profoundly transformed by the seduction carried out by his aunt, was also affected by the disjunction between love and desire.
