The word paradox comes from Greek para, beyond, and doxa, opinion, thought. In this paper, I examine Textes pour rien as reiterated instances of thinking beyond or thinking outside received models of thought and perplexed mood that results for readers. I interrogate performative effect of Beckettian paradox with help of psychopragmatics that Charles Sanders Pierce developed during decade of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and Beckett's birth, along with some philosophical and psychoanalytical parallels of his views on psychic semiosis. Ultimately, I maintain that with Textes pour rien, Beckett sought to put into effect artistic procedures that, beyond perplexity, induce in readers mood required to experience a radical otherness within psyche. First, a brief review of Peirce's approach to what I term psychopragmatics. As we know, Peirce insists on a triadic semiosis, which he defines as action, or influence involving cooperation of a sign, its object, and its interpretant (Peirce 1931-58, 5.484). By adding an interpretant, which I define as pragmatic effect on receiver, to signifier-signified-referent relation, Peirce extends semantic definition of sign into pragmatic realm of contextual effects and performative action. He thereby opened up meaning-making to a continuous process of psychic and social overdetermination, stretching from unconscious mind to shared values of community. The concept of interpretant enabled Peirce to view interaction ? whether social or intrapsychic ? in terms of an unending process of dialogue, in which every signifying act depends on previous interpreting acts and is itself reiterated/translated by subsequent acts of signification (Peirce 1931-58, 5.284). It is, of course, interpretant that distinguishes most markedly Peirce's definition of semiosis as an action from Saussure's. Peirce who turned everything into triads, spoke of three interpretants, that is, emotional, energetic, and interpretants, a division corresponding to his ontological categories of firstness, which for psyche consists of qualities of secondness, or the experience of effort; and thirdness, law or reason. Accordingly, an emotional interpretant produces a feeling; an energetic interpretant effects a physical or mental effort, and a logical interpretant, in addition