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Metaphysique poesie et mystique reflexions a propos de l'oeuvre de marie noel

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Jan. 1, 1986

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Lille 3

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Abstract EN:

This work consists in a philosophical analysis of the itineraries of marie noel : metaphysical, poetical and mystical. These three itineraries intermingle, and build themselves in relationship with one another. Marie noel passed from a metaphysical questioning to the mystical experience lived within her own catholic religion however, this mystical experience always outlined itself all along her life until it finally triumphed. Marie noel shows to us that metaphysics has its language, that of reason, which is actually confronted with its limits. Poetry has its language, the language of the ineffable encounter with the absolute being, called father by marie noel, which can only be expressed by means of symbols. These symbols refer us to a reality which surpasses what our senses and reasonings can unveil to us but on condition that poetry should express this relation ship to the absolute without which it does not convey the whole human essentiality. The essentials of man cannot come from himself, but from the measure which the absolute being conferson him. Poetry, then, is mystical and cannot be otherwise, even though that is expressed on different levels. The reason which constructs must, once it has reached its limits, welcome another reality which is the being, and which in addition gives the relative being its true consistency. The metaphysical itinerary is surpassed in marie noel by a progression her mystical life, and this takes place in her experience of the spiritual night. The experience of the limits of thought as well as that of her contingency mark the noelian progress. Finally, marie noel, as the mystics of bergson's open morals, welcomes the absolute being and from him gives a divine explanation of the human condition.

Abstract FR:

Ce travail consiste en une analyse philosophique des trois itineraires de marie noel : metaphysique, poetique et mystique. Ces trois itineraires s'entremelent et se construisent les uns par rapport aux autres. Marie noel est passee d'une interrogation metaphysique a l'experience mystique vecue au sein de sa religion catholique. Neanmoins l'experience mystique a toujours ete presente en filigrane chez elle et a fini par triompher. Marie noel nous montre que la metaphysique a son langage, celui de la raison, qui constate d'ailleurs ses limites. La poesie a son langage de l'ineffable rencontre avec l'etre absolu, appele pere par marie noel, qui ne peut etre exprimee que par des symboles. Ces symboles nous renvoient a une realite qui depasse ce que nos sens et nos raisonnements peuvent nous devoiler, mais a la condition que la poesie manifeste cette relation a l'absolu sans laquelle elle n'exprime pas toute l'essentialite humaine. L'essentiel de l'homme ne peut lui venir de lui-meme, mais de la mesure que l'etre absolu lui confere. La poesie est donc mystique et ne peut cesser de l'etre meme si cela s'exprime a des degres differents. La raison qui construit doit, parvenue a ses limites, accueillir une autre realite qui est l'etre et qui par surcroit donne a l'etre relatif sa veritable consistance d'etre. L'itineraire metaphysique est depasse chez marie noel par une progression dans sa vie mystique, depassement realise dans l'experience de la nuit spirituelle. L'experience des limites de la pensee ainsi que celle de la contingence marquent le cheminement noelien. Finalement marie noel, comme les mystiques de la morale ouverte de bergson, accueille l'etre absolu et a partir de lui, donne une explication divine de la condition humaine.