Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis

Situating Derrida's engagement with Freud vis-à-vis key contemporaries such as Lévi-Strauss and Foucault, this title uses close analysis of a range of primary texts to show how Derrida reshaped Freud's insights in the very different intellectual context of post-war France.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• A Note on Translations and Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1: Creation Myths: Freud in France


• 2: Psychical Spacings


• 3: Speculations: Deconstruction and Science


• 4: The Archive: From Print to Digital and beyond


• 5: Politics of Affect


• Conclusion: Impossible Legacies


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Paul Earlie is Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he also held a Laming Junior Fellowship. His research interests are in modern and contemporary French thought.

Summary

Situating Derrida's engagement with Freud vis-à-vis key contemporaries such as Lévi-Strauss and Foucault, this title uses close analysis of a range of primary texts to show how Derrida reshaped Freud's insights in the very different intellectual context of post-war France.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Earlie, Paul (Lecturer in French Earlie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780198869276
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886927-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis