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Jean Salem, « Réminiscences épicuriennes dansles Égarements du cœur et de l'espritde Crébillon », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.2003.2542
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This article discusses nine themes in Crébillon's Égarements (1736-38) which confirm the impression that it conveys many philosophemes taken from Epicurus and Lucretius : education and manners pervert nature ; imagination leads to excesses such as wordly victory or jealousy ; amorous passion, of two sorts, is linked to instinct, as feeling is desire added to pathos ; wordly agitation and its desires aim at forgetting our interior boredom ; passion is enchantment and blindness and its occasional cause leads to unease and obsession ; the notion of the right moment transfers the Greek notion of kairos to the sexual domain ; the Platonic system is absurd as only pleasure is real ; self-interest is the main motive for human actions ; in the world the abuse of words replaces thought. We see that Crébillon's work contains a coherent philosophy, in which sexuality is the normal sanction for what novelists usually treated as a more or less impure feeling.