A landmark text on psychiatric confinement. A pocket reissue to rediscover an emblematic text from the 1970s on the psychiatric internment of women.
Marie-Anne Le Rozick, alias Emma Santos, forcefully describes her painful journey, her unrealizable desire for a child and the violence of internment in a psychiatric asylum. In an incandescent style, she looks back on her love breakup, marked by male domination and violence, as well as on her birth to writing.
His writings, where language and carnal matter converge, explore taboo themes for the time, such as abortion, and are rejected by many publishers. Yet she clings to her texts – writing is a way of emancipation and her lifeline – which explode the clichés around “madness”, even if it means killing Emma S., the assumed name given by her ex-husband.
The editions women-Antoinette Fouque continue, with the reissue of I killed Emma S. in pocket and that of La Malcastrée in 2022, their editorial work around the work of Emma Santos, a major writer whose emblematic and poignant writings are dazzlingly modern!
At that moment when he did not come to the psychiatrist’s appointment on July 2, 1975, I killed Emma S., writer with a name imposed by Man, his own name, literary and psychiatric woman, woman of paper on the books and on the medical files, woman invented by game and I believed in it. I killed Emma S. to search for a new woman, an unborn woman, to take my rebirth name… ES
