![]() ![]() In Epileptic’s use of both a communal linguistic and more subjective visual semiotic we can read the text as a graphic representation of the Unconscious, in psychoanalytic terms, particularly as formulated in confrontation with the mysterious sickness. Throughout the course of the story, the disease acts as a major motive force both in terms of plot and character development. ![]() This somewhat contradictory existence has dire consequences on the development of the younger siblings’ mentalities and is reflected in their adult lives. recites his childhood as the younger brother of the epileptic Jean-Christophe, whose condition casts a heavy pall over the lives of the family his illness does not respond to medical treatment, forcing his parents to search for alternative therapies driving the whole family into a spiral of spiritualism, mysticism and occultism. This paper focuses on how illness is presented via the graphic medium and how the very use of it creates the premises for understanding illness as a mental fermentation of unconscious instability and the Unconscious itself.
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