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Gènes Et Mythes Littéraires : Pour Un Modèle Biologique Du Dynamisme Mythique G`eneset mythes litt´eraires: pour un mod`elebiologique du dynamisme mythique Abolghasem Ghiasizarch To cite this version: Abolghasem Ghiasizarch. G`eneset mythes litt´eraires: pour un mod`elebiologique du dy- namisme mythique. Litt´eratures. Universit´eGrenoble Alpes, 2011. Fran¸cais. <NNT : 2011GRENL001>. <tel-00596834> HAL Id: tel-00596834 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00596834 Submitted on 30 May 2011 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destin´eeau d´ep^otet `ala diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publi´esou non, lished or not. The documents may come from ´emanant des ´etablissements d'enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche fran¸caisou ´etrangers,des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou priv´es. THÈSE Pour obtenir le grade de DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE GRENOBLE Spécialité : Imaginaire Arrêté ministériel : 7 août 2006 Présentée par « Abol Ghasem / GHIASIZARCH » Thèse dirigée par « Philippe / WALTER » préparée au sein du Laboratoire CRI – Centre de Recherche sur l’Imaginaire (EA 610) dans l'École Doctorale Langues, Littératures et Sciences Humaines GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE Thèse soutenue publiquement le « 14 janvier 2011», devant le jury composé de : M. Jean Bruno RENARD Professeur à l’Université Montpellier 3, Président M. Claude THOMASSET Professeur à l’Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Rapporteur M. Philippe WALTER Professeur à l’Université Grenoble 3, Membre GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 2 REMERCIEMENT Qui ne remercie pas le peuple, ne remercie pas Dieu non plus. Je remercie Dr. Philippe Walter qui est pour moi une bibliothèque vivante. J’ai trouvé chez lui tout ce dont j’ai eu besoin. Je salue aussi sa souplesse et son ouverture d’esprit qui m’a laissé une large marge de liberté pour mener à bien ce travail de recherche. GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 3 Table des Matières Introduction 6 Majles I : Le mythe en littérature selon Pierre Brunel et 12 Philippe Sellier Critiques 16 1. Une définition issue du mythe ethno-religieux 17 2. Une définition régionale, locale 20 La présentation des périodes de la mythologie de Perse 23 1. La mythologie Perse l’ère avant Sassanide 24 2. La période mythologique de Perse l’ère post-Sassanide 26 3. La période mythologique l’ère post-Sassanide shi’ite 29 Présentation de la mythologie shi’ite 30 Origine de la mythologie littéraire shi’ite 31 La fondation de la civilisation shi’ite 36 Le temps 42 1. La période du passé : avant les Ahloul Bayt (sa) 42 2. La période du présent 46 2-1. Le jour de Ghadir 47 2-2. Les jours de Fatemieh 48 2-3. Le jour de Ashoura 50 2-4. Les jours de Sha’bân 51 3. La période du futur : Au-delà 52 L’espace 53 L’action 54 Conclusion 55 Majles II : Gènes et Mythe Littéraires 59 1. Qu’est-ce qu’un archétype ? 64 1.1. Les définitions de l’archétype 66 1.2. Des contenus de l’inconscient collectif (notre modèle 73 génétique) 1.2.1. La soupe originelle 74 1.2.2. Les contenus de la soupe originelle Les réplicateurs: 75 (les gènes (ADN) les mèmes) GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 4 1.2.3. Les machines à survie 77 1.2.4. La stabilité (la longévité, la fécondité, la fidélité de 78 copie) 1.2.5. L’évolution (la compétition, la sélection naturelle) 79 2. Le mythe littéraire 82 La notion de « Littéraire » 86 Majles III : Les Gènes littéraires et leurs fonctions 95 I. La frontière dans le réel et l’imaginaire 97 I.I. La frontière dans le rêve 101 I.II. La frontière dans l’imaginaire 104 II. Le Big Bang ou l’origine de l’imaginaire 106 III. Le tableau des gènes et mèmes littéraires (LMG) 112 Le tableau des gènes et les mèmes littéraires «LMG » 117 Le premier groupe : A’qâed (Groupe A) 119 Le deuxième groupe : Ahkâm (Groupe B) 120 Le troisième groupe : Akhlâq (Groupe D) 120 Le groupe Moshtarak (Groupe C) 122 Repérage des gènes littéraires dans un récit 129 1. La présence de certains gènes littéraires 129 2. Le rôle du fractal d’une séquence de l’ADN littéraire 152 Majles IV : Méthode de repérage du mythe : exemples 157 La méthode de repérage du mythe 162 1. Le texte I. Le mémorial des saints de Farid-u-Din 'Attar 166 2. Les Livres I. L’Amant de la Chine du Nord de Marguerite Duras 176 II. La Peste d’Albert Camus 185 Conclusion 194 Références bibliographiques 198 GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 5 Annexes 213 La Carte de l’Iran en 1814 III Le Sermon de Fatemah Az-Zahrâ (AS) IV Traduction de la ziyârat Achourâ XXI Types de gènes et vocabulaire technique XXVII Le sermon de l’Imam Ali (as) sur les Attributs de Dieu et La XXXIII Création des Cieux, de la Terre, des Anges et de l'Homme Les thèmes des mythes LXIV Les mythes et leurs thèmes LXXII Hadith al-Kissah [L’Evénement de la Couverture] LXXIX Doua’ Ahd [L’engagement] LXXXIII Récit d’Esfandiyar LXXXVI Qu’est-ce qu’une fractale ? LXXXVIII GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 6 INTRODUCTION GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 7 « Il a créé l'homme. Il lui apprit à s'exprimer clairement. » (Coran, Surate 55, versets 1-4, traduit en français par Hamidullah) En 1981, l’anthropologue et mythologue Claude Lévi-Strauss écrivit un compte rendu sur l’ouvrage du biologiste François Jacob Le jeu des possibles1. Il voyait dans la biologie, la science des structures en mouvement. A bien des égards, le mythe appartient à la même espèce des structures en mouvement. Selon Jacob : « mythes et sciences remplissent une même fonction. Ils fournissent tous deux à l’esprit humain une certaine représentation du monde et des forces qui l’animent. Ils délimitent tous deux le champ possible. » (Jacob, 1981 : 25) Mais avant François Jacob, il y avait un autre biologiste qui s’appelle Richard Dawkins2. Il a écrit en 1976 Le Gène égoïste, dans lequel il explique que «toute vie évolue en fonction des chances de survie des entités répliquées». Selon lui, le gène est la principale unité de sélection 1 JACOB, François, (1981), Le jeu des possibles, Paris : Fayard. 2 Richard Dawkins, né le 26 mars 1941 à Nairobi, est un biologiste et éthologiste britannique, vulgarisateur et théoricien de l'évolution, membre de la Royal Society. Professeur à l'Université d'Oxford, Richard Dawkins est l'un des académiciens britanniques les plus célèbres. Il acquiert la consécration avec son livre de 1976 intitulé The Selfish Gene (français : Le Gène égoïste), qui popularise la théorie de l'évolution centrée sur les gènes et introduit le terme de «mème». En 1982, il développe cette théorie dans son ouvrage Phénotype étendu puis publie en 2006 The God Delusion (français : Pour en finir avec Dieu), vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires. (Encyclopedia libre de wikipédia : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins) GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 8 dans l'évolution. Dawkins invente aussi le concept de « mème » comme étant l'unité de l'évolution culturelle par analogie avec le gène. Donc, il estime qu’il y a un rapport très fort entre la génétique et la culture humaine, autrement dit, entre le monde physique, le cerveau humain et l’imaginaire. Dès 1938, Roger Caillois dans Le Mythe et l’homme, déclarait : «Il y a donc une sorte de conditionnement biologique de l’imagination, venu de déterminations fondamentales susceptibles d’intervenir chaque fois que l’intelligence ne dirige pas son libre jeu vers un but précis. Aussi agissent-elles également dans les mythes et les délires, pour prendre les pôles extrêmes de l’affabulation. » (Caillois, 1938 : 83) Dans Le champ des signes, Caillois essaie de trouver un « aperçu sur l’unité et la continuité du monde physique intellectuel et imaginaire ou premiers éléments d’une poétique généralisée ». Dans cette tentative, il constate que « l’imaginaire n’est rien de plus qu’un prolongement de la matière. » (Caillois, 1986 : 71) Roger Caillois avait posé l’hypothèse que, au fond, il n’y a pas de différence fondamentale entre la manière que l’esprit fonctionne et la manière que la nature crée les formes différentes. Il cherchait un modèle capable d’expliquer son hypothèse : « Un modèle permanent, à une extrémité contraint la matière ; à l’autre, il inspire la fable. » (Ibid. : 72) Donc, selon lui, il n’y a pas de différences entre, des règles du fonctionnement de l’imaginaire humain et le monde physique, les pierres, la biologie et la botanique. Il y a les mêmes règles du fonctionnement général dans toute la nature. GÈNES ET MYTHES LITTÉRAIRES : POUR UN MODÈLE BIOLOGIQUE DU DYNAMISME MYTHIQUE 9 Dans l’introduction des structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire, Gilbert Durand en étudiant la réflexologie betcherevienne, constate qu’il y a une convergence du symbolique et du biologique chez l’homme et qui est la seule possibilité d’étudier le « système fonctionnel » du cerveau humain. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Caillois, Gilbert Durand et Richard Dawkins voyaient une liaison forte entre l’imaginaire et la biologie. Mais, leurs recherches n’aboutissent pas à présenter un modèle concret. Ce que nous essayerons de présenter dans notre recherche, est un nouveau parcours vers ce but avec le nouvel outil de la génétique.
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