Celui que nous aimons est là et il n’est pas là Le cadavre dans la thanatologie littéraire

In his study on philosophical thanatology, Todesmetaphren, T. H. Macho analyses what he calls the “paradox of the corps”. When we have a look on corpse of a beloved person, we are frightened because we consider the “object” still as that person. We are witnesses of a fundamental ontological change: the existential-ontological structure of the Dasein (being there/presence) turns into an object. The Leichenparadox was fascinating writers and philosophers. .