La Manipulation Comme Contrôle De Soi Face À La Maladie Et À La Souffrance : Feuilles D’hôpital De Lorand Gaspar

This article analyzes Lorand Gaspar’s Feuilles d’hôpital [Hospital notes] from the perspective of the concept of “manipulation”, understood not in its pejorative sense, but as a set of practices through which the subject transforms his relationship with illness and suffering. Integrating Michel Foucault’s concepts of “technologies of the self” and Cornelius Castoriadis’s “social imaginary meanings”, the study highlights how Gaspar proposes a humanistic vision of the experience of illness. The analysis follows three main forms of “manipulation”: the transformation of the self through inner discipline and self-control, the reconfiguration of the relationship with the other through empathy and care (caring), and the restructuring of the experience of illness through language and writing. In this perspective, healing is not understood as a return to the previous state, but as the acquisition of a new existential balance and new meanings of the experience of being in the world.