Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781472529138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str.

Wortham Simon Morgan; Simon Morgan Wortham; Chiara Alfano

Opis

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism.

This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well.

Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

Spis treści

List of contributors Introduction Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano Chapter 1 Ashes to Ashes: Derrida’s Holocaust Gil Anidjar Chapter 2 ‘There shall be no mourning’ Simon Morgan Wortham Chapter 3 Transference Love in the Age of ‘Isms’ Herman Rapaport Chapter 4 Kindling; or, Suicide by Fire Elissa Marder Chapter 5 Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and Ferenczi Lynn Turner Chapter 6 Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida’s ‘Freud and the Scene of Writing’ Céline Surprenant Chapter 7 The Desire for Survival? Kas Saghafi Chapter 8 The King is Dead! Long Live the King! Chiara Alfano