ABSTRACT
J. J. Rousseau writing is haunted by evil and the quest for its origins, but it is also infiltrated by the account of physical pains and, ultimately, raises the question of salvation. Rousseau gave rise to such a following that one current of thought, considering him as degenerate, tried to discredit the whole of his work by highlighting the persecuted and ill person, the hypochondriac suffering from necropathy, to the detriment of the visionary, the reformer or the pedagogue. The term of somatisation elicited by hypochondriacal disorders is one of the consequences of the interest analysts have shown in the relations uniting the life of the mind and bodily functioning: following earlier traces with the study of hysterical conversion, they turned the debate towards internal illnesses with so-called somatoform disorders. It should be pointed out that a solution is possible by placing the disorders at the heart of an artistic creation.
