Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis, Paragraph Vol 36 No 2 (Paragraph Special Issues): Paragraph Volume 36, Issue 2 - Softcover

Hanrahan Mairead Daw; Mark Dawson; Eric Prenowitz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748677089 ISBN 13: 9780748677085

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Psychoanalysis is of immense importance in different ways to Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by leading contemporary thinkers in literary theory and continental philosophy, including a contribution by Cixous herself, this volume explores the place of psychoanalysis in their work. It has a double focus: both on the complex treatment to which psychoanalysis is subjected by Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, and on the role of psychoanalytical concepts and insights in the extraordinary intellectual dialogue that united these two groundbreaking authors over several decades. Psychoanalysis remains an enigmatic discourse for the humanities: on the one hand inextricable from and in many ways constitutive of much of modern thinking, yet on the other hand violently contested, from within and without. The essays in this volume consider this situation through two thinkers whose work challenges and radicalises psychoanalytic thinking in unprecedented ways.

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About the Author

Mairéad Hanrahan is Professor of French at University College London. She is Editor of the journal Paragraph.Eric Prenowitz is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. He is an acclaimed reader and translator of both Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Recent publications include special editions of parallax and New Literary History on the work of Hélène Cixous, and 'Rêvécrire', in Rêver croire penser, CampagnePremière, 2010.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748677089
• ISBN 13: 9780748677085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100