“Courriers de la mort”: Denis Thériault, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida

Abstract

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.