Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2007.
Original scientific paper
The Work of Text, the Work of Mourning. Derrida and Psychoanalysis
Luka Bekavac
Abstract
This article’s introductory chapter summarizes the basic outlines of Derrida’s early readings of Freud and Lacan, and the following chapters analyse the impact of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok on his later work. Introjection/incorporation, crypt, cryptonymy, transgenerational phantom – the key ideas of their psychoanalysis, developed in a detailed revision of Freud’s concept of mourning – provide the foundation for Derrida’s thinking on spectrality and text, as well as for reconsidering mourning as an ethical problem. The concluding chapter demonstrates Derrida’s elaboration and overcoming of the opposition between introjection and incorporation (i. e. normal and pathological) in his writings on the deaths of Roland Barthes and Paul de Man: the post-Freudian aporias of mourning as a fundamental way of relating to the other demand a thorough rethinking of the concept of subject.
Keywords
Jacques Derrida; psychoanalysis; mourning; Nicolas Abraham; Maria Torok; Sigmund Freud; ethics
Hrčak ID:
15732
URI
Publication date:
2.4.2007.
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