{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Paul Earlie","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198869276.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869276.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The Conclusion addresses the shared impossibility of legacy in Freud and Derrida by exploring a number of key differences between psychoanalysis and deconstruction. For Freud, psychoanalysis is interminable because the work of understanding one’s past is always exposed to an unpredictability that haunts the calculating technique of the analyst. For different reasons, Derrida figures deconstruction as an endless task, though one not without implications for the interminability of psychoanalysis. In this vein, the Conclusion examines a term privileged by both Derrida and Freud: ‘resistance’. For Derrida, the irreducible resistance of Freud’s legacy to interpretation has consequences for how we should engage with this legacy, explored here with respect to Lacan’s contrapuntal inheritance of Freud. This resistance also has consequences, however, for how we should engage with Derrida’s work today and for ongoing debates over the linguistic-materialist legacy of deconstruction.","PeriodicalId":248121,"journal":{"name":"Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115535269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychical Spacings","authors":"Paul Earlie","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198869276.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869276.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the complex relationship between spatiality and the psyche in psychoanalysis and in deconstruction. For Derrida, Freud’s spatialized models of the mind are a key element in psychoanalysis’s break with the traditional ‘Platonism’ of metaphysics, explored here through the examples of Plato and Edmund Husserl. In attending to the importance of space in Derrida’s work, this chapter provides a detailed account of his well-known neologism ‘différance’. Although différance has sometimes been interpreted as a theory of time, Derrida’s engagement with the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions highlights différance’s status as a movement of spacing (espacement), as the structural ‘co-implication’ of time and space. This co-implication is examined here through a reading of Derrida’s early essay, ‘Freud et la scène de l’écriture’ (‘Freud and the Scene of Writing’), a text which surveys the problematic relationship between anatomical (or neurological) space and the virtual space of Freud’s metapsychology. Situating Derrida as a thinker of spatial difference and its aporias provides an important means of engaging his work with the recent ‘materialist’ turn in the humanities, represented here in Catherine Malabou’s neuroscientific challenge to deconstruction.","PeriodicalId":248121,"journal":{"name":"Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134574912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creation Myths","authors":"Paul Earlie","doi":"10.4135/9781412963961.n113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963961.n113","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores a series of ‘creation myths’ in the reception of Freud’s work in France. In understanding myth as a fictive unity that conceals otherwise troubling ‘aporias’ (a term developed here in detail), Derrida’s work provides a useful lens through which to understand a number of recurrent gestures on the part of Freud’s French inheritors, from passionate devotion to forceful denials of indebtedness, from open hostility to bitter personal and professional rivalries. The resistance of Freud’s textual legacy to interpretation means that it is always accompanied by attempts to mythologize what remains irreducibly plural or undecidable in Freud’s writings, an argument tested here through readings of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan. If each of the latter seek to recuperate the singular meaning of Freud’s work for a particular concern of the present (anthropological, clinical, existentialist, or linguistic), for Derrida the legacy of psychoanalysis can never be appropriated without remainder, an impossibility which is also the paradoxical source of the rich possibilities generated by Freud’s thought.","PeriodicalId":248121,"journal":{"name":"Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133589256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}