Before revision: See OED The word was subsequently utilized in the 20th century by francophone Canadians as "La Survivance," and also employed by the French theorist Jacques Derrida to denote a spectral existence that would be neither life nor death.Maurizio Calbi, Spectral Shakespeares: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century (London: Palgrave, 2013), p.165
After revision: Oxford English Dictionary It was also borrowed from the French term 'suvivance' in other contexts.