Interpretation and difference : the strangeness of care / Alan Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Alan.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpretation (Philosophy).

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Derrida, Jacques.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Nietzsche : active interpretation

Heidegger : descriptive interpretation

Derrida : spectral, binding interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-194).

ISBN:

0804753377

0804753385

9780804753371

9780804753388

OCLC:

70060987

Publisher Number:

9780804753371

9780804753388