This article offers a critical analysis of “the Fabrègues Affair” (2022), a case of youth violence in which two twelve-year-old girls carried out a series of stabbings, resulting in the death of one of their fathers. What was initially viewed as a simple “family tragedy [ drame intrafamilial]” ballooned into a national conversation when the girls claimed, after their arrest, that their violent act had been inspired by “creepypasta,” crowdsourced online horror fictions and videos. While the crime, in its purported relation to digital forms of storytelling, appears eminently specific to the present moment, and while news coverage consistently emphasized the girls’ femininity and sexual orientation in an apparent attempt to further sensationalize their act, the conventional wisdom, as it appears in media coverage of the case, exposes a striking reliance among commentators on outdated psychoanalytic models that do not attend to the specificities of the moment, or to questions of gender and sexuality. This article explores how theories of the relationship between imitation and aggression have been applied in “the Fabrègues Affair” before proposing alternative feminist approaches to understanding the social phenomenon of violent behaviors among girls who appear to draw inspiration from imaginary monsters. In doing so, it aims to contribute new perspectives, drawn from feminist theory and horror studies, to girlhood and childhood studies in the contemporary French context.

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Creepypasta 和“法布雷格事件”：最近一起青少年暴力案件中的模仿和攻击行为


本文对“法布雷格事件”（2022）进行了批判性分析，这是一起青少年暴力案件，两名 12 岁女孩进行了一系列刺伤，导致其中一名父亲死亡。当女孩们被捕后声称，她们的暴力行为是受到众包在线恐怖小说和视频“creepypasta”的启发时，最初被视为简单的“家庭悲剧[家庭内部的戏剧]”的事件迅速发展成为一场全国性的讨论。虽然这起犯罪行为据称与数字形式的故事讲述有关，但似乎是针对当前时刻的，而且新闻报道不断强调女孩的女性气质和性取向，显然是为了进一步炒作她们的行为，但传统观点认为，它出现在媒体对此案的报道中，暴露了评论者对过时的精神分析模型的惊人依赖，这些模型不考虑当下的特殊性，也不考虑性别和性问题。本文探讨了模仿与攻击之间关系的理论如何在“法布雷格事件”中应用，然后提出替代的女权主义方法来理解似乎从想象中的怪物中汲取灵感的女孩暴力行为的社会现象。这样做的目的是从女权主义理论和恐怖研究中汲取新的视角，为当代法国背景下的少女时代和儿童研究提供新的视角。