Interpretation and Difference - Hardcover

Bass, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804753377 ISBN 13: 9780804753371

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book synthesizes Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida on interpretation and difference in order to provide a new theory of how interpretation functions in psychoanalysis.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Bass is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. He is author of Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), and the translator of Jacques Derrida's Writing and Difference (1980), Positions (1982), Margins: Of Philosophy (1984), and The Post Card (1987).

From the Back Cover

"This work opens up and defines an area of research that until now has been only present latently. Bass situates Freud and psychoanalytic interpretation in proximity to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. The result is original and groundbreaking and should be of interest to a wide swath of readers-philosophers, critical theorists of all disciplines, and thoughtful psychoanalysts." --Donald Moss, M.D., New York University Psychoanalytic Institute

From the Inside Flap

This book is the companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The key to this resistance is the unconscious registration and repudiation (disavowal) of the reality of difference. The surprising generality of this resistance intersects with Nietzsche's, Heidegger's, and Derrida's understanding of how and why difference is in general the "unthought of metaphysics." All three see metaphysics engaged with a "registration and repudiation of difference," and all three rethink interpretation in relation to this question. The synthesis of these theories of interpretation and difference provides the philosophical foundations for a new thinking of how interpretation functions, and is a critical intersection of deconstruction and psychoanalysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804753377
• ISBN 13: 9780804753371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216