Abstract
Written in 1772 and first presented to the public in 1796, Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville occupies a prominent place in the history of primitivism. Our study aims to show how, in this work, the processes of creation – embedded narratives, speeches and the polyphonic structure of the text – set up an ontological mechanism including an image of the “Other” and the “Self” which deserves to be analysed. Far from being resolved, the opposition between these two poles draws a divided subject which is made in language and manifests itself in and through a complex network of voices whose functioning is neither identical nor even complementary. It is by this movement, made up of aporias and paradoxes, that dialogical practice acquires in Diderot its full originality, becoming both a method of interpretation and the product of this interpretation.
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