Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

But the real Nietzsche is far more complex than the one that Derrida, following Bataille and Klossowski, depicts. He is not the ...

France. Sartre paid homage to Freud in The Family Idiot( 1971 ), a psychoanalytic treatment of Flaubert. In 1967 , Jean Laplanch ...

drastic self-punishments. Even as he unmasks reason’s tyranny over our psyche in the shape of the lordly superego, Freud still h ...

dard metaphysical platitudes. He had a Pisgah sight of the Der- ridean promised land but was unable to arrive there. Derrida beg ...

was on the train home from Berlin to Vienna, galvanized by one of his periodic “congresses” with his eccentric friend Wil- helm ...

difference, one of Derrida’s key terms, as early as the mid- 1890 s. Yet Freud, alas, is not a Derridean. Derrida remarks that a ...

traces forever but is quickly filled up) and an erasable celluloid sheet (which can be used forever but retains nothing). Freud ...

mobile and uncorruptible substance, a son of God, a sign of parousia” ( 230 ). Derrida, in these remarks, turns Freud into a rel ...

voking them at the very end of “Freud and the Scene of Writ- ing.” In doing so, he reveals his allegiance to Jewish tradition as ...

Derrida realizes that Freud’s interest in the violent ori- gins of the law is in the line of the Hebrew prophets rather than the ...

sage, Derrida in “Freud and the Scene of Writing” counters the Egyptian idea with passages from Ezekiel and Numbers. In chapters ...

ing. (Freud’s account of his own trimethylamine dream in The Interpretation of Dreams, in which he swallows a printed chemical f ...

on it and yet utterly characteristic of it. It is like the law im- posed by God on the Israelites, the origin of the strange sup ...

known to a wide public in Writing and Difference.In that collection Derrida does his best to take the measure of his philosophic ...

Lévi-Strauss’s empiricism is declared naïve, as is Husserl’s sup- posed attachment to the voice in Speech and Phenomena.In Writi ...

Derrida writes, “when one no longer has the force to under- stand force from within itself. That is, to create. This is why lite ...

centrality. A favorite mise-en-scène in a Blanchot story is the dire meditation in an empty room, undertaken by a faceless chara ...

Genesis, gains strength from the push and shove of rival mean- ings: from, as he calls it, the equivocal. Writing is, remarks De ...

by harnessing together the superb and haughty traditions of avant-garde polemic, existentialist bravado, Blanchot’s match- less ...

high, enabling metaphor. Derrida comments: “When a Jew or a poet proclaims the Site, he is not declaring war....The site is not ...