The 'ordinary' baseness of family secrets in the works of Julien Bigras

This article examines the place occupied by secret-based shame in the works of writer and psychoanalyst Julien Bigras, particularly in his novels L'enfant dans le grenier and Ma vie, ma folie. Basing himself on the works of Nicolas Abraham, who has studied the incorporation of an "intrapsychic secret," the narrator-writer explores the effects of idealising the mother and deposing the Name-of-the-Father. In this journey through baseness ("l'immode") to shame, does not Bigras also present the Quebecois "shame of origins"?