Ève, du manque au sujet-femme : une relecture discursive du désir de la femme dans Gn 3 à partir de ses réceptions

The objective of this dissertation is to show that Eve, as a metaphor of the lack and as a desiring subject-woman, is related to the desire for God. To do this, we will begin by pointing out that what we know of the character of Eve in the story of Genesis 3 is the result of the perception of what we will define as “The Tradition” and of her interpretation of this text. This perception, on the side of the “woman-as-an-objet”, is a reality based on the gaze of men who believe that the woman is weaker by nature, because she is incomplete, a miss, and therefore missing. By exploring how the interpretations of the Gn 3 narrative stage the figures of an Eve, sometimes dangerous, sometimes inferior, sometimes erased by the idealized figure of the Virgin Mary, we will see how the cultural a priori of an androcentric reading have deeply marked the very way of rereading the text, of hearing and understanding it. By taking in account the way this Tradition has both heard and masked the sexual difference between man and woman, our own discursive analysis of the story of Gn 3 unfolds how the figure of Eve can also become the representative of the lack that God himself desires. The lack that God desires, of which Eve is the metaphor, appears both as the necessary ingredient for life, word and desire, and as the burden that Eve must bear in order to walk the paths of her own destiny, as a woman who cannot escape the question of motherhood either. Our axis of rereading, which takes into account the dimension of the speaking subject, leads us to identify Eve’s active role. From her “not-all” posture, she takes her place in the creation of the adam as the one to whom the snake from elsewhere talks. It is with the serpent that the first dialogue is established and that Eve experiences herself as a speaking and desiring subject. Because she speaks, Eve overflows. Once the forbidden has been spoken, it becomes the place of the "inter-dit", where, between the lines, something of Eve's singular desire becomes transmissible to the adam. The transgression in act then makes it possible to look at sexual difference, making also possible the transmission of human life as an act of creation. At this point in the narration, Eve becomes a subject, a subject of desire, a woman-as-a-subject, at bay from what man wants her to be, a woman intrinsically and experientially inhabited by the question of the maternal and the motherhood. If for both men and women, motherhood is the first access to the woman, the narrative shows that a woman’s speech is dependent on this subjective structure, which makes each woman singular. Her subjectivity of being a woman with a hole in her body necessarily tends her being to the world, to the Other and to others, bringing into play both her responsibility and her ethics, of which Eve is the figure that represents them all. This dissertation therefore aims to participate in a reflection and a discussion on being a woman, no longer considered as an object to be submitted, possessed, or whose body could be reduced to procreate, but as the experience of a singular subject, a subject of desire, a being of flesh and blood whose words and desire are to be taken into account at bay from the universal discourse. We hope that our thesis will make a significant contribution to the recognition of women in their singular and subjective enunciation as participants in the becoming of the world, and that they are recognized as the breath that emerges from the lack and which breaks through the fantasy of the One.

Keyphrases: Relecture discursive, Bible, Psychanalyse, Discursive rereading, Genesis 3, Woman, Feminine, Lack, Desire, Subject, Motherhood, Theology, Psychoanalysis, Exegesis