“instead of being rejected, the choice of a life alone is restored to its true status: that of a victory over multiple pressures that act upon the individual from the moment of her birth and condition a large number of her actions, ‘a pitched battle against the archetypes we carry within us, the conventions, the constant and ever-renewed social pressure.’”55 Only in this space do we suddenly discover other stories and other points of view, such as this one, from the Revue d’en face of June 1979: “Slow blossoming of desires, repossession of one’s body, of one’s bed, of space and time. An
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