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For the Love of Psychoanalysis - The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida (Paperback)
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For the Love of Psychoanalysis - The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida (Paperback)
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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.
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