Still little-known, Emma Santos (whose real name was Marie-Anne Le Rozick) published eight books between 1971 and 1978. In her texts, she recounts her ten-year depression during which she spent her time either at the psychiatric hospital or alone in the city. She mentions her life-long attachment to death and to the negative ; she tells about the pain her body regularly feels because of a car accident, and finally, entrusts her desperation linked to a violent breaking-off and to repeated abortions she was forced to undergo. Paradoxically, her texts are also a claim for writing to be a resistance against the influence of psychoactive drugs that she is constantly prescribed, and an act of survival ; writing would therefore be a way for the subject to hold at the limit of the negative.