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This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation-in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida ("Freuderrida"), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.
List of contents
Abbreviations of Works Cited | ix
Introduction: Freuderrida | 1
Part I Freuderrida1. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (Foreign Bodies I) | 9
2. Traumatic Temporalities: Freud's Other Legacy | 24
3. Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident? | 35
4. What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis and Telepathy (Foreign Bodies II) | 47
5. The Speculative Turn: Plato's Place in the Theory of the Drives | 68
Part II Freuderrida6. For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis | 101
7. Cruelty and Its Vicissitudes | 120
8. The "Question" of the Death Penalty | 139
9. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution | 151
Appendixes Crib Notes
A. What Is at Play in Play? Derrida's
Fort/Da with Freud's
Fort/Da | 179
B. Devouring Figures: Little Red Riding Hood and the Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida | 190
Acknowledgements | 199
Notes | 201
Index | 243
About the author
Elizabeth Rottenberg is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and a practicing psychoanalyst in Chicago. She is the author of
Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert (Stanford) and the editor and translator of many books by Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-François Lyotard.
Summary
This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.
