Article Title
The Poetics of a Khatibian Psychotic Language: Inner Wandering
Abstract
This article offers a parallel poetic and psychopathological reading of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s novel Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux. It analyzes obsessive repetitions, zones of the unsaid, and linguistic heterogeneity as signals of a discourse of wandering shaped by exile from the world, the self, and language. The study links geographical mobility to an “inner wandering” and focuses on narratological shifts—especially the implicit passage from third-person narration to first-person speech—and the resulting effects of doubling. By bringing textual analysis into dialogue with clinical notions (melancholy, derealization, split subjectivity), it highlights how the narrative stages an unstable self and frames wandering as both spiritual quest and identity work.