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Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
Paper, 224 pages, N/A
ISBN: 978-0-231-14309-7
$26.00
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October, 2007
Cloth, 224 pages, N/A
ISBN: 978-0-231-14308-0
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"A provocative volume . . . There is much in it to admire and criticize." — Jeffrey M. Jackson, Ph.D., Metapsychology
"Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis offers readers eight probing, crackling, and urgently compelling essays that draw out the ways in which Jacques Derrida's work with psychoanalysis refuses the simplistic and falsifying epistemological separation of the psychic and the social, or the psychic and the political. These essays, through their thorough and thoughtful discussions of the convergence and divergences between Derrida's and Deleuze's respective treatments of foundational concepts in psychoanalysis, serve an invaluable goal of dispelling the tendency of critical thought in recent decades to consider psychoanalysis and politics, or the psychic and the political, as separate." — Liz Constable, the University of California at Davis
"This volume stages a much needed encounter between Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, two most influential thinkers of our time, on the ground of a certain resistance to psychoanalysis. The numerous points of intersection addressed in this volume are vertiginous and fascinating: buccality, bestiality, stupidity, perversion, childhood, animality, performance in film and media, race, political resistance and pain. By staging a comparative reading of these two thinkers, this volume opens a space beyond comparison, a monstrous, polymorphously perverse realm of psychoanalysis yet to come." — Dragan Kujundzic, professor of Jewish studies, Germanic and Slavic studies, and film and media studies at the University of Florida. He is also the author of Returns of History, Tongue in Heat, and co-editor of Provocations to Reading.