ABSTRACT
Jean-Pierre Brisset's works are indisputably over-determined: they supply too much material for their purpose. It is precisely that they constitute a connection, often a forced and far-fetched one, between the dream-content and the dream-thoughts. Despite the ravages caused by organized religion, Brisset readily accepted the progresses made by humankind; he was no Luddite. As Brisset dwells so little on the Fall, he never properly explains why humankind needs to be saved. Paradise is ahead rather than behind people, though there was in Brisset's chronology an epoch of something akin to sexual bliss and moral neutrality, a kind of Golden Ageism, but far less prissy than Douanier Rousseau's. In Brisset's general vision of the future society, all honorific distinctions, all visible manifestations of religious cults, all armies, will have withered away or been disbanded. Brisset's own version of unanimism was his vision of a coming federation of all nations: all humans linked, willy-nilly, by 'la Parole'.
