Resistances of Psychoanalysis (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) - Hardcover

Derrida, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804730180 ISBN 13: 9780804730181

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various "resistances" to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.

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Review

'An engrossing critique of psychoanalysis, a confessional memoir, a tale of intellectual influences, a history of the great twentieth-century love affairwith Freudian thought - such is Resistance of Psychoanalysis, a book to raise the level of debate over the politics of deconstruction several notches.' The Australian

Synopsis

In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued, and assimilated. The continuing interest in psychoanalysis is here examined in the various resistances to analysis conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis s resistance to itself, an insusceptibility to analysis that has to do with the structure of analysis itself. Derrida not only shows how the interest of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic writing can be renewed today, but these essays afford him the opportunity to revisit and reassess a subject he first confronted (in an essay on Freud) in 1966. They also serve to clarify Derrida s thinking about the subjects of the essays Freud, Lacan, and Foucault a thinking that, especially with regard to the last two, has been greatly distorted and misunderstood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0804730180
• ISBN 13: 9780804730181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146