Mapping Jouissance : Insights from a Case Study in the Schizophrenia of Canadian Drama by: Gregory J. Reid “To read is to compare.” 1 George Steiner In The Map and the Garden , John Vernon identifies two forms of schizophrenia which together frame the most common features of twentieth century literature and culture: one the alienation of division, compartmentalization, separation (the map); the other, the absence of distinctions, the compulsion to see the world as inseparable, natural, erotic, and always whole (the garden). 2 Vernon’s contrast of “map” and “garden” shows a striking potential to absorb various contrastive analyses of English Canadian and Québécois literatures, including the double-axis hypothesis highlighted by Jean-Charles Falardeau (1959) in which English Canadian literature is seen to operate on a horizontal axis (individuals in relation to each other and society) in contrast to the vertical axis (of man in relation to the cosmos) of Québécois writing; 3 Clara Thomas’s characterization of English Canadian literature as masculine, linear, and Protestant formed under the image of Robinson Crusoe in opposition to the cyclical, feminine and Catholic perspectives of a French Canadian writing dominated by the fable of the “Precious Kingdom” (1972); 4 Philip Stratford’s stylistic analysis of the