Can I die? Derrida on Heidegger on death From: Philosophy Today | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Thomson, Iain | Copyright DePaul University Spring 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

No one believes in his own death. Or, to put the same thing in another way, in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

Is my death possible?

Jacques Derrida, Aporias (p. 21)1

Holding to the truth of death-death is always most/just [one's] own-shows another kind of certainty, more primordial than any certainty regarding beings encountered within the world or formal objects; for it is the ce...

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