Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself?
Navigating in and through texts of Marx, Husserl, and especially Valery, Derrida seeks a...
Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling e...
Jacques Derrida Pascale-Anne Brault Michael B. Naas
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.
In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various -resistances- to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at t...
Jacques Derrida Pascale-Anne Brault Michael B. Naas
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...
In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoan...
