A Tale of Two Jacques

Abstract

In the Fall of 1974, 1 heard that Derrida was to lecture on Lacan in Buffalo. I drove the four hours from Ithaca to Buffalo, frantically looked for the building on a campus I didn't know, arrived after Derrida had begun, finding a seat way back in the balcony. In that already distracted state, I had a lot of trouble following the lecture, but it nonetheless threw me into a defensive panic. Derrida was saying terrible things about Lacan. About six months later "Le Facteur de la verite" came out in