Abstract
Haitian intellectuals such as Frankétienne have long tried to educate their society through literature in French and Creole. Acknowledging the abyss of colonial heritage, Frankétienne criticizes his own people through a self-reflective play. In this interpretive practice, the self consists of a collective body, which is the Haitian people. Frankétienne believes that the atrocities of the past have created destructive habits and behaviors that contribute to Haiti's decline. These patterns are so recurrent that one could say that Haiti is undergoing a collective psychological condition that Frankétienne portrays through a psychopathological conversation in his renowned play, Pèlen Tet (1975).
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