On the Mechanism of the Literature as Therapy

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In this paper, we observe the mechanism of the humanities therapy to find the diverse possibilities of its application. If we want the therapeutic value of the literature, it is necessary to think about ‘the power of thoughts’, in other words to philosophize, and to seize what means the pharmakon in the text of Derida. The good understanding of this Greek word will allow us to seize substance and the attribute of the mechanism of the therapy by the literature. On the therapeutic plan, the modalities of the therapeutic application of the literature correspond to those of the medicine:allopathy, homoeopathy and symptomatic treatment, causal treatment. Among them, the humanities therapy by the literature takes the shape of symptomatic treatment. It’s because the literary therapy does not mean forcing the cure, but the care. The causes of the pain after which the literature has to look are the passions which cannot be removed from our existence. It is the reason why philosophy of the symptomatic treatment becomes the model of the humnities therapy by the literature. Therapy by the literature or the philosophy is an action to look after the capacity to think and to express thus to communicate which immunizes people against the suffering of the disease of modern time.

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