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“Courriers de la mort”: Denis Thériault, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 4, December 2015
- pp. 33-47
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0050
- Article
- Additional Information
Tracing a tacit correspondence between Denis Thériault’s Le facteur émotif and, through the work of Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle, this essay considers how a speculative treatise published in 1920 and a Québécois novel released in 2005 echo and elucidate one another in their lifedeath, prostheses, and epistolarity.