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From the twentieth century in the twenty-first, psychoanalysis and
deconstruction have challenged, and continue to challenge, our
conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. Psychoanalysis revealed
that even in our innermost households we are never quite alone;
rather, instances of "otherness" incessantly interfere in our most
intimate relation to ourselves, forcing us to adapt continuously.
Deconstruction, inheriting both this psychoanalytic disclosure and
Heidegger's destruction of the history of metaphysics, went to the
foundations of the Western constructions of "the subject" and "the
self," only to find how a destabilizing otherness was always
already haunting them. What, if anything, remains of the self in
the aftermath? Early on in the wake of deconstruction, a certain
misconceived and simplified notion of the "death of the subject"
was proclaimed and in recent years more or less successful attempts
have been made at reviving the notions of "the subject," "the
self," and "agency." In contrast to these attempts at revival, this
book offers a two-pronged approach: On the one hand, it argues that
neither psychoanalysis nor deconstruction propounds a simple
annihilation of the subject or liquidation of the self; on the
other hand, however, neither do they pave the way for a "return to
the subject" or "resurrection of the self" that would allow us once
again to become confident about our presence to ourselves. Instead,
this book suggests that if we set ourselves the task of taking up
the heritage from psychoanalysis and deconstruction in a serious
manner, we are obliged to retrace the subject and the self as
undergoing perpetual auto-deconstruction.
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