ABSTRACT
Re-volt is retourreturn, retournement-return, deplacement-displacement, changement-change: return in the sense of repetition, not of the same but in the form of a continuous displacement. Only in the field of the arts is it possible to fully affirm a displacing return to an elusive origin; art is the return of a language to its past and to those elements that are most archaic to it—fear, passion, abjection, etc. The revolt of the unconscious is serving to uncover a domain that continues to withdraw from the normalisation and levelling of the dominant culture, the domain of intimacy. Intimacy is not privacy, but a form of interiority in which the body is being reinvoked as part of the mind: not a psyche but a psukhe, in Greek for a soul of sensibility. In its radical questioning of the unity of meaning, Freudian psychoanalysis has announced the kind of revolution of thought and language of which philosophy and literature are other kinds of realisation.
