Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

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politics(continued)
131 ; Nietzsche’s influence and,
165 – 66 ; Sartre and, 28
The Politics of Friendship, 217
Ponge, Francis, 25
Pontalis, J.-B., 103
The Post Card: From Socrates to
Freud and Beyond, 171 – 79 , 242
poststructuralism, 94 , 166 , 226
Poulet, Georges, 198
Pound, Ezra, 77
pragmatism, 83
presence, 7 , 9 , 68 , 73 , 110 ; desire of,
86 ;fort-dagame and, 178 ;Freud-
ian trace and, 108 ; play and, 101 ;
self-presence, 75 , 91
Project for a Scientific Psychology
(Freud), 105 – 7
Prospero and Caliban(Mannoni), 103
Proust, Marcel, 172
Psyche, 215
psychoanalysis, 8 , 24 , 188 , 241 ;on
comforts of fantasy, 57 ; decon-
struction and, 104 ; experience
and, 89 ; founding of, 46 – 47 ;in
France, 102 – 3 ; Freud as founder
of, 179 ; interpretation and, 186 – 87 ;
metaphysics and, 114 ; as priestly
sect, 111
psychology, 2 , 3 , 5 , 219 ; bind to phi-
losophy, 10 ; de Man affair and, 4 ;
history of madness and, 63 , 66 ;
Husserl and, 37 , 38 ; as necessary
perspective, 247 ; philosophy
entwined with, 29 ; rejection of,
7 ; resistance to, 140 ; Sartre’s phe-
nomenology and, 27


“The Question of Style,” 165
Quine, W.V.O., 225


racism, 203 , 204 , 206 , 233
rape, 234 – 35
Real (Lacanian concept), 3
reason: endurance in face of criti-
cism, 98 ; logocentrism and, 32 ;
madness as ideal entity and, 65 ,
67 – 68 ; superego and, 104 ; totaliz-
ing power of, 31 ; value and, 39 ;
violence of, 8
relativism, 35
religion, 80 , 114 , 125 , 170 , 214
repression, psychic, 104 , 105 , 174 , 178 ,
252 n 8
Republic(Plato), 142 , 143 , 146
responsibility, 163 , 210 , 247 .See also
ethics
Revelation, Book of, 222
Ricoeur, Paul, 183
Rorty, Richard, 172 , 228 – 29
Rothstein, Edward, 238
Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 233 – 37
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 7 , 68 , 81 ,
93 , 94 , 195 ; de Man’s critique of
Derrida on, 199 – 200 ; Derrida’s
critique of, 91 – 92 , 99 , 129 , 251 –
52 n 3 ; idealistic primitivism of,
87 ; importance to young Der-
rida, 18 , 20 ; Lévi-Strauss as stu-
dent of, 87 , 90 ; Nietzsche op-
posed to, 18 , 101

Said, Edward, 236 , 250 n 7 , 256 – 57 n 9
Saramago, José, 219
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 23 , 28 – 29 , 75 , 89 ,
250 n 7 ; Communist politics of,
228 ; Derrida’s rejection of, 12 ;as
engagé intellectual, 25 – 26 , 27 – 28 ,
215 ; on Freud, 103 ; Heidegger’s
critique of, 134 ; humanism and,
134 – 35 ; Husserl and, 2 – 3 , 5 , 26 – 27 ;

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