For the Love of Psychoanalysis : The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida / Elizabeth Rottenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rottenberg, Elizabeth, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For the Love of Psychoanalysis is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Rottenberg examines what emerges from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy.Part I, “Freuderrida,” announces a non-traditional Freud: a Freud associated not with sexuality, repression, unconsciousness, and symbolization, but with accidents and chance. Looking at accidents both in and of Freud’s writing, Rottenberg elaborates the unexpected insights that both produce and disrupt our received ideas of psychoanalytic theory. Whether this disruption is figured as a foreign body, as traumatic temporality, as spatial unlocatability, or as the death drive, it points to something that is neither simply inside nor simply outside the psyche, neither psychically nor materially determined.Whereas the close reading of Freud leaves us open to the accidents of psychoanalytic writing, Part II, “Freuderrida,” addresses itself to what transports us back and limits the openness of our horizon. Here the example par excellence is the death penalty and the cruelty of its calculating decision. If “Freuderrida” insists on the death penalty, if it returns to it compulsively, it is not only because its calculating drive is inseparable from the history of reason as philosophical reason; it is also because the death penalty provides us with one of the most spectacular and spectacularly obscene expressions of Freud’s death drive.Written with rigor, elegance, and wit, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Freud, Derrida, and the many critical debates to which their thought gives rise.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations of works cited

Introduction. Freuderrida

Chapter 1. Psychoanalysis and neuroscience (foreign bodies I)

Chapter 2. Traumatic temporalities Freud’s other legacy

Chapter 3. Is there such a thing as a psychical accident?

Chapter 4. What are the chances? psychoanalysis and telepathy (foreign bodies II)

Chapter 5. The speculative turn Plato’s place in the theory of the drives

Chapter 6. For the love of psychoanalysis: deconstruction and psychoanalysis

Chapter 7. Cruelty and its vicissitudes

Chapter 8. The “question” of the death penalty

Chapter 9. A new primal scene: Derrida and the scene of execution

Appendix A. What is at play in play? Derrida’s fort/da with freud’s fort/da

Appendix B. Devouring figures: little red riding hood and the final seminars of Jacques Derrida

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823284139

0823284131

OCLC:

1100087869