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VIDEO. Christine Angot talks about the incest she suffered from her daughter
When she was a child, Christine Angot was the victim of incest at the hands of her father. A trauma about which she discusses with her daughter, Léonore Chastagner. Faced with the silence of those close to her, the writer and director also chose to talk about her past in the documentary “A Family”.
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When she was a child, Christine Angot was the victim of incest at the hands of her father. A trauma about which she discusses with her daughter, Léonore Chastagner. Faced with the silence of those close to her, the writer and director also chose to talk about her past in the documentary “A Family”.
There “shame”. This is the word that comes up when Christine Angot talks about the incest she suffered as a child at the hands of her father. “I feel ashamed when I experience these moments. When he kisses me on the mouth the first time. When I can’t tell my mother afterwards. When I lie to my classmate. When I go to meet guys and I’m ashamed that this thing is somehow noticeable, etc.” explains the writer and director. She has since realized that this shame she carries is not hers. But that of his father, “who doesn’t wear it”. “Because someone has to be ashamed. In some ways, this shame that victims of incest carry is painful, but at least it ensures that someone in this society is ashamed of the thing itself” declares Christine Angot.
“This shame that I carry, is it mine? It is that of my father who does not carry it”
“Incest, often in families, is characterized by the fact that it is a secret. It’s something unsaid. That wasn’t the case in my family at all, in fact. It’s always been named. around me. The word “incest” gravitated around me” comments Léonore Chastagner, artist, daughter of Christine Angot. She adds : “Even I who have not experienced incestuous acts, I recently realized that the feeling of shame was locked inside me and all the more inaccessible since it a priori had no reason to exist. be. Ultimately, the fact that my grandfather allowed himself to do this to my mother, it exists for me too”. Faced with the silence of certain relatives, Christine Angot decided to talk about this trauma in her documentary “A Family”.
