To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Auteur: Jacques Derrida Copy Quote More from Jacques Derrida “Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be m…” “Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to …” “I rightly pass for an atheist.” “I do not teach truth as such; I do not transform myself into a diaphanous mouth…”