For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida

Elizabeth Rottenberg

Published by Fordham University Press 2019

For the Love of Psychoanalysis

The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida

Elizabeth Rottenberg

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823284139

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About this book

This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.

Explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and deconstruction with rigorous attention to both, but also with the wit and humor characteristic of both fields.

Author / Editor information

Rottenberg Elizabeth :

Elizabeth Rottenberg is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and a practicing psychoanalyst in Chicago. She is the author of Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert (Stanford) and the editor and translator of many books by Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Reviews

Elissa Marder, Emory University:
This brilliant, pathbreaking, witty, and lucidly argued book will undoubtedly become a major point of reference—if not the major point of reference—for anyone interested in psychoanalysis and deconstruction for years to come.

Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto:
A tour de force of critical writing. Rottenberg has a unique, lively, and witty philosophical voice. She stands out as one of the most interesting scholars working at the intersection of deconstruction and psychoanalysis.

This is the kind of book that will repay multiple readings because new facets of its multilayered argumentation appear with each rereading. Students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis will find rich models in this text for approaching the intersection of philosophical speculation and the art of analysis. Highly recommended.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations of works cited Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Freuderrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Freuderrida
Chapter 1. Psychoanalysis and neuroscience (foreign bodies I) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 2. Traumatic temporalities Freud’s other legacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 3. Is there such a thing as a psychical accident? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 4. What are the chances? psychoanalysis and telepathy (foreign bodies II) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 5. The speculative turn Plato’s place in the theory of the drives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Part II. Freuderrida
Chapter 6. For the love of psychoanalysis: deconstruction and psychoanalysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 7. Cruelty and its vicissitudes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 8. The “question” of the death penalty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 9. A new primal scene: Derrida and the scene of execution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Appendixes. Crib notes
Appendix A. What is at play in play? Derrida’s fort/da with freud’s fort/da Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Appendix B. Devouring figures: little red riding hood and the final seminars of Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: accident; chance; cruelty; death drive; death penalty; Derrida; Foucault; Freud; psychoanalysis; trauma

eBook

Published: June 4, 2019
ISBN: 9780823284139