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Examination of the processes of Latin American 19th century history that led to a close relationship between our countries with Europe and to the strenghtening of Creole Eurocentrism. Such link was imagined as much older and intimate, but actually belongs, in the same way that in other parts of the world, to the European hegemonic period in history. In our days the change towards a new world system is giving the opportunity for overcoming Creole Eurocentrism.

Keywords: Eurocentrisme, Migrations internationales, Amérique Latine, Mentalité criolla, Eurocentrism, International migrations, Latin America, Creole mentality

Dominique Desanti (1920-2011), whose grandfather was a Russian emigrate, was engaged in the French Résistance, then into the Communist Party. She dedicated her life to writing : an historian and a professor, she was also a journalist for « l'Humanité », collaborated with « Le Monde » and « Les Temps Modernes », and a talentuous writer. She shared her life with the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti, whom she met in 1937. She died in Paris on April 8th, 2011. One of her last major book « La sainte et l'incroyante » Bayard 2007, tells the life of an orthodox saint and martyr, Mother Marie Skobtsov, who died in the Ravensbrück camp gaschamber, March 31st, 1945, and was sanctified in the year 2004. Dominique met her into the Paris of the « avant-guerre », she recalls the pathetic episodes of their encounters, and introduces us to the life of that outstanding woman, who crossed apparently all the storms marking her century, from the Russian revolution on. « Mother Marie remained into my bones, and haunted me », she wrote.

Keywords: Jean-Toussaint Desanti, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Résistance, Parti communiste français, philosophie, histoire, justice, vérité, combat, liberté des femmes, journaliste, historienne, biographe, clandestinité, Élisabeth Pilenko, mère Marie de Paris, moniale orthodoxe, martyre, Ravensbrück, foyer de Lourmel, père Gillet, père Dimitri Klepinine, émigration russe

In a decree presenting the vision for its mission during the 35th General Congregation, in 2008, the Society of Jesus has chosen the theological notion of reconciliation as the integrative principle. Immediate heir to a series of decrees on mission going back to the 1960s, this decree on reconciliation as mission harmonizes anew the notions of the service of the faith and the promotion of justice that had marked the 32nd General Congregation (1974-75) and its conflictual aftermath, while strengthening the holistic dimension by the addition of a third term : creation. The notion of reconciliation provides the framework for an original rereading of the biblical, historical, spiritual and existential foundations of the mission of this religious order, while acknowledging the tensions at work in the modern world. As a result, a new geography of the mission emerges, which assigns a differentiated value to frontiers and to the agents of reconciliation who work there. The very specific use of the notion of reconciliation to reflect upon the mission of a religious community highlights the plasticity and the fecundity of the very concept of reconciliation.

The present article proposes to examine the representation of characters of Latin origin in two Quebec novels, with special emphasis on the Latin-American girl. We focus on this figure, which has received little attention, because it resides at the confluence of the gender and race relations which, together with class relations in particular, divide the continent as a whole. By analyzing Soudain le Minotaure [Suddenly the minotaur] (2002) by Marie-Hélène Poitras and Quelque part en Amérique [Somewhere in America] (2012) by Alain Beaulieu, we aim to determine if these figures reflect bias and correspond to certain myths historically associated with the representation of the “señorita.”

In her story Ceremony, Yasmina Chami-Kettani, in addition to critiquing marriage within Moroccan society and demonstrating the aporia of male-female relations, proposes an interesting working of fiction. In this text closely-linked past events in which interconnected stories are closely or loosely related to death, death does not operate as a theme or motif; it revives fiction, nourishes the story and proposes a renewal of narrative strategy. This is why it is not taken into account as being synonymous with an end but with a beginning, a springboard for action. The mother, life, and death all intertwine, become knotted, encrypted and decrypted as places of grief but also as places of fiction rebirth.

Keywords: deuil, encryptement, enfance, femme, fertilité, mélancolie, mère, sacrifice, grief, encrypting, childhood, woman, fertility, melancholia, mother, sacrifice

Relying on his numerous years of clinical psychiatric experience, the author shares some of the lessons and pitfalls of the continuous self-preparations and even the mourning of one's self required in intervention. Many clinical anecdotes complete the proposed reflections.

Keywords: art-thérapie, deuil, santé mentale, art therapy, mourning, mental health

Following a brief description of the patients seen at the HIV Maternal and Pediatric Center of the Ste-Justine Hospital, the authors present a summary of the main psychoscial issues with HIV in a pediatric context. A number of clinical examples are provided to illustrate the issues highlighted.

Keywords: VIH/sida, milieu familial, aspects psychosociaux, processus d'adaptation, HIV/AIDS, family environment, psychosocial aspects, adaptation processes

Contemporary women's literature is full of female characters who challenge the expectations scripted for them in traditional tales by ceasing to “take care” of themselves and others (fathers, husbands, children, friends, strangers). Their identities are based on tension in a constant dialectic between care and the violence (symbolic or physical, metaphoric or real) that derives from folktale archetypes. Contemporary women's writing, as it explores themes such as love relations, family relations, motherhood, sexuality, and the use of drugs, presents forms of violence, inflicted sometimes on others and sometimes on oneself, that are better understood when they are observed through the prism of an underlying ethics of responsibility and care. This article shows how care becomes violence. The goal is to understand one of the limits of care, as revealed by cases that involve smashing the dynamics, breaking (violently) with “taking care of”, and rejecting the morality crystallized in traditional tales. Attempting to understand the roots of the revolt against certain folktale motifs, the article analyzes Lessangs by Audrée Wilhelmy and Demoiselles-cactus by Clara B.-Turcotte, works that draw on folktale codes in order to better indicate the moment these codes are smashed.